Sunday, July 31, 2011

Pineville Honors Fallen UBB Miners

  • {West Virginia}...The town of Pineville honored one of its own Saturday with the dedication of a new pavilion in honor of  21 year old Adam Morgan, the youngest victim of the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion at the Massey Energy operation in Raleigh County in April of 2010. Pineville Mayor Tim Ellison says building the pavilion at the town park will honor Morgan as well as 5 other miners from Wyoming County who died that day: Benny Willingham, Robert Clark, Nick McCroskey, William Griffith and Edward Jones. Along with the pavilion, the town also raised money to purchase special benches that are placed around the park. Each bench has the name of the fallen miner and the date of the UBB explosion when they perished. Morgan's bench is located in the pavilion. Ellison says a local sign maker has also designed a special tribute to Morgan which has has engraved coal buckets on one side and the helmets on the other side.