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One killed, one injured at US coal plant

ONE worker has died and another is injured at Patriot Coal's Blue Creek preparation plant in Kana...

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One killed, one injured at US coal plant

US Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere said the fatality occurred at Patriot subsidiary Midland Trail Energy's Five Mile Prep Plant.

MSHA believes a hydraulic pump burst on a belt press just after 4pm. The names of the workers have not yet been released.

It is West Virginia's first coal-mining fatality of the year and the second nationally.

The plant has only had a few safety citations from MSHA, with the most recent in December.

Louviere said an order was issued to close the plant immediately after the fatality and a federal investigator was enroute.

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