Marshall County Miner Killed

{West Virginia}...The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has confirmed that 62 year old Charles McIntire was killed Monday night at CONSOL Energy's Shoemaker Mine in Marshall County. Company spokeswoman Lynn Seay says McIntire was approaching his 10th anniversary as a Consol employee when a track-haulage problem killed him. A preliminary report from MSHA says McIntire was reconnecting his loading machine, which was being used as a trench digger, to a power supply cable called a trolley wire. McIntire exited his machine to complete the hook up, and it appeared the machine struck him when it re-energized. Shoemaker Mine won a safety award in 2010. The death is the 6th coal-mining fatality in West Virginia, and the 15th nationwide in 2011.