MINE ACCIDENT Miner Hurt On Job Expected To Be OK
Reported by: Wes Armstead
Web Producer: Teresa Higginbotham
Also Contributing: Kallie Cart
Reported: Jan. 2, 2012 9:11 AM EST
Updated: Jan. 2, 2012 11:34 AM EST
Eyewitness News Photo
Wharton
, Boone County
, West Virginia
A mine injured on the job Monday morning is expected to be okay.
Donny Pauley with the Brody Mine in Wharton tells Eyewitness News that Todd Agosti suffered a hand injury while trying to reassemble a belt. Agosti was transported to Boone Memorial Hospital.
Agosti is a member of the belt crew, which moves equipment from one end of the mine to the next. He's been with the mine for a little more than a year.
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ORIGINAL STORY:
A miner is apparently injured in a mine accident.
It happened around 8:30 a.m. in Boone County.
Emergency dispatchers say the unidentified miner got tangled up in a belt at the Brody Mine in Wharton.
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Wes Armstead
