State investigators have concluded that a miner overrode an emergency stop function on a remote-controlled mining machine that crushed him in June, and that warning lights on the machine weren’t working either. Rodney S. Osborne, 32, of Artie, West Virginia, …
Hecla Mining Co. says a miner who died in a tunnel collapse at the Lucky Friday Mine in northern Idaho is partly responsible for his own death due to his own negligent and careless misconduct. The company in court documents …
A Patriot Coal subsidiary has been cited by state regulators for a roof fall that killed a miner in Boone County. A report by the West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says an unsafe procedure was used …