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Fatal Accident Reported in Harlan County Coal Mine

By Erica Peterson
Published June 29, 2011 at 9:39 PM EDT

A Harlan County miner became the nation's ninth coal miner to die on the job this year, and the second in Kentucky. The name of the miner hasn't been released, but the accident happened at the Manalapan P1 mine at Pathfork this morning.Investigators from the Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing are on the scene, and preliminary reports suggest the miner was killed in a roof fall.
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