The federal Mine Safety and Health
Administration released more information late Thursday about a Nov. 10 coal
mining accident in Monongalia
County
MSHA said Raymond Scott Savage, 49, of
Maidsville, was struck by a large rock that measured 5 feet by 3 feet by 13
inches thick. Savage was operating a roof bolting machine at Red Bone Mining
Company’s Crawdad No. 1 Portal B Mine near Maidsville.
Savage, the section foreman, was struck
by the rock that fell from the roof near the area he was working.
Savage had 27 years of mining
experience. His death was the 14th mining death of the year in the United States
Both federal and state mine investigators are working on
separate investigators into the fatal accident.
