Coal miner at Patriot subsidiary is killed
July 29th, 2009
ORGAS, W.Va. — Emergency officials in Boone County say a worker at a coal mine has been killed in an accident.
A Boone County 911 operator says the death was reported at 10:05 a.m. Tuesday.
State mine safety office spokeswoman Jama (Jay-muh) Jarrett says an excavator rolled into a pond at Catenary Coal’s Samples mine.
Jarrett had no further information and the worker’s name wasn’t immediately released easy payday loan.
Catenary is a subsidiary of Creve Coeur-based Patriot Coal, which has operations in West Virginia and Kentucky.
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