A Boone County coal miner is dead after an accident at Coal River Mining LLC's Fork Creek #10 Mine near the intersection of the Boone, Kanawha and Lincoln county lines south of Charleston around 4:15 A.M. Friday morning. Officials say 35 year old Johnny Mack Bryant II of Lenore, in Mingo County, had worked at the site for one year and 14 weeks. Bryant was a move crew employee. Jesse Lawder, a spokesman for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, says Bryant was part of a crew that was setting up the continuous mining machine for the upcoming day shift when he was caught between the conveyor boom of the continuous mining machine and the mine wall, receiving fatal crushing injuries. Bryant became the 12th U.S. coal miner to die on the job in 2012.
