the victim was employed as an evening shift roof bolter. “Roof bolts are used to secure and support the roof of the mine where coal has been removed,” the update states. The evening crew had ...

Roof bolters play a crucial role in ensuring mine safety by securing the roof where coal has been extracted. The roof fall happened just as the evening crew arrived at the active section to begin ...

A coal mine maintenance supervisor working underground ... A maintenance team was trying to repair a roof bolter that wouldn’t start. CONSOL spokeswoman Cathy St. Clair confirmed that a ...

Brown, a roof bolter from Lynch with ... the workers at the D-29 Darby Fork mine in Holmes Mill were preparing to relocate an electrical distribution box so more coal pillars could be extracted.

Authorities say the victim was employed as the evening shift roof bolter. They add the evening ... According to Virginia Energy, the last coal mining fatality in Virginia occurred in May 2015.

After coal is removed in an underground mine, roof bolters use machines to insert long bolts as roof supports into the rock above the coal seam. These supports are designed to prevent the rock ...

All the coal dust in the world couldn’t keep ... Michael’s wife Mollie said her husband is a roof bolter for Excel Mines in Pikeville, Kentucky. Over the weekend, he left his job to attend ...