Man dies in mine accident

[jmowreader]

Source: Coeur d'Alene Press

WALLACE - A 29-year-old Pinehurst man was fatally injured during a Friday morning accident at the Galena Mine.

The Shoshone County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Timothy Allen Bush was the worker who died following the accident, which occurred around 8 a.m. Heather Bailey-Foster, executive assistant for the U.S. Silver Corporation, said Bush was a miner, but an employee of a mine contractor.

The Sheriff's Office was dispatched to the Galena mine at 8:38 a.m. for what originally was an unknown injury accident.

The next of kin have been notified, the mine safety and health administration is on site and the accident remains under investigation.

Read more: http://www.cdapress.com/news/local_news/article_ab3aa73c-fd25-507a-a207-045658bd6426.html

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I'm not sure if this is a Union mine, but it probably is--the UMW is pretty strong up in the Silver Valley.

[Tx4obama]

1. What the hell is going on lately....

There have been A LOT of mining accidents in the news in the past few months, more than usual it seems.

Another one in the news earlier today...

June 18, 2010 1:50 p.m. EDT
18 coal miners dead, 53 missing in Colombia explosion
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/18/colombia.mine.explosion/index.html?hpt=T2

Below are a few others, but does not include all of them:

USA
April 5, 2010
Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, 29 miners died.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Big_Branch_Mine_disaster

TURKEY
Coal Mine Accidents Claim 66 Lives in Five Months
By Turkish Weekly, May 25, 2010
http://news.mining.com/2010/05/25/coal-mine-accidents-claim-66-lives-in-five-months/

CHINA
2010
Several mine accidents. 53 miners died in one; over 100 miners died in another.
Many others not included in the previous sentence.

KENTUCKY
April 29, 2010
Mine accident claims life of Kentucky coal miner
PROVIDENCE, Ky. — One miner has died in a coal mine collapse in western Kentucky and another was missing,
http://article.wn.com/view/2010/04/29/Mine_accident_claims_life_of_Kentucky_coal_miner/