A miner died after a mine collapsed in Fayette County Friday afternoon, officials with Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection said.Crews worked to remove loose rock, and were able to remove the person nearly eight hours after it collapsed. The miner was found unresponsive, and pronounced dead at the scene just after 11 p.m.Watch Sky 4 video over the scene in the video player above. DEP has not identified the person, but said their next of kin has been notified. A DEP spokesperson said they believe the roof of the mine collapsed, falling onto the equipment the miner was working on.The mine collapse was reported around 3:30 p.m. at Laurel Aggregates’ Lake Lynn mine located along Springhill Furnace Road in Springhill Township. The American Red Cross of Greater Pennsylvania said in a tweet Friday evening that they had been requested to provide mental health services and support to the scene of the mine collapse. “Trained and skilled Red Crossers are en route to provide help and support,” the tweet from the Red Cross said. The mine is mostly used to mine limestone.”This is a quarry, but there is an underground mine portion of it, that’s the type of facility certainly there’s surface mining there’s underground mining,” community relations coordinator for the DEP, Lauren Fraley saidThe owner of the Lake Lynn mine, Arcosa, released a statement to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 saying, “At this time, we are focused on responding to an emergency incident at our Lake Lynn, Pennsylvania aggregate facility. The safety of our employees is our number one priority. More information will be shared when appropriate.” The DEP said it was responding to the situation. DEP’s Bureau Mine Safety and the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration were both at the site.
SPRINGHILL TOWNSHIP, Pa. —
A miner died after a mine collapsed in Fayette County Friday afternoon, officials with Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection said.
Crews worked to remove loose rock, and were able to remove the person nearly eight hours after it collapsed. The miner was found unresponsive, and pronounced dead at the scene just after 11 p.m.
Watch Sky 4 video over the scene in the video player above.
DEP has not identified the person, but said their next of kin has been notified.
A DEP spokesperson said they believe the roof of the mine collapsed, falling onto the equipment the miner was working on.
The mine collapse was reported around 3:30 p.m. at Laurel Aggregates’ Lake Lynn mine located along Springhill Furnace Road in Springhill Township.
The American Red Cross of Greater Pennsylvania said in a tweet Friday evening that they had been requested to provide mental health services and support to the scene of the mine collapse. “Trained and skilled Red Crossers are en route to provide help and support,” the tweet from the Red Cross said.
The mine is mostly used to mine limestone.
“This is a quarry, but there is an underground mine portion of it, that’s the type of facility certainly there’s surface mining there’s underground mining,” community relations coordinator for the DEP, Lauren Fraley said
The owner of the Lake Lynn mine, Arcosa, released a statement to Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 saying, “At this time, we are focused on responding to an emergency incident at our Lake Lynn, Pennsylvania aggregate facility. The safety of our employees is our number one priority. More information will be shared when appropriate.”
The DEP said it was responding to the situation. DEP’s Bureau Mine Safety and the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration were both at the site.
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We have been requested to provide mental health services and support to the scene of this mine collapse in Lake Lynn, Fayette County.
Trained and skilled Red Crossers are en route to provide help and support. https://t.co/aZzDMNx3ED— American Red Cross Greater PA (@RedCrossGPA) January 8, 2022
