The state
Mine Safety Office is investigating a fatal coal mining accident that
happened Thursday night in Tucker
County
The
state Office of Mine Safety Health and Training said Daniel Lambka, 20, of Maryland , as killed at Mettiki Coal’s Mountain View Mine
near Davis
The
death occurred at around 9:10 p.m. when Lambka was crushed according to a
preliminary investigation.
Lambka
had more than four years of mining experience. He had been at the Mountain View
Mine for less than six months.
State and federal
investigators were on the scene Friday.
