RUPERT — —
An electrician at the Alex Energy Inc., Pocahontas Mine in Green Valley in Greenbrier County, died as a result of injuries he received on the job early Friday morning.
Steven O’Dell, 27, address unavailable, an electrician working for Alex Energy, a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources, was pronounced dead at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Rupert, following the 1:30 a.m., mine accident. The Associated Press reports that O’Dell was injured when he was caught between a scoop and a continuous miner.
State and federal mine safety and health administration officials are investigating the accident. For more details on this accident, see Saturday’s edition of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
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