One killed and two injured in W. Va. mine roof collapse

Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette

One person was killed and two injured Sunday night in a mine roof collapse outside of Cameron in Marshall County, W. Va., officials confirmed.

Tom Hart, emergency management director for Marshall County, said emergency crews were called around 8:50 p.m. to the scene of a roof collapse at the Cameron Portal of a Murray Energy coal mine. Crews arrived to find three injured workers who had been rescued out by other mine workers.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2015/03/08/Roof-Collapse-at-Cameron-Mine-Portal-Possible-Entrapment/stories/201503080217

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This is of interest mainly because the mine is owned by the same company that was involved in the Crandall Canyon mine disaster in 2007.