UPDATE: 2 miners killed at Dotiki mine, bringing US coal fatality total in 2010 to 35

摘要

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration said the evening of April 29 that the nbodies of two missing miners had been recovered in the Dotiki underground coal nmine in western Kentucky. n n"On April 28, at approximately 10:40 p.m. Central Standard Time, the Mine Safety nand Health Administration (MSHA) received word of a roof collapse at the Dotiki nMine (ID 15-02132) in Hopkins County, Ky. Dotiki is operated by Webster County nCoal, LLC and owned by Alliance Resource Partners, LP," said an update on the nagency website. "Two miners were originally unaccounted for, but on April 29, at n8:35 a.m. CST, rescue personnel located the first victim near the bumper of the ncontinuous mining machine. Around 2:30 p.m., the second victim was found, and nrescuers were attempting to remove fallen material and support the roof directly above nhim. The first victim has been removed from the fall area and transported out of the nmine. At 5:30 p.m. CST, the second victim was removed from the fall area and ntransported to the surface."