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EYEWITNESS LOCAL NEWS
SLURRY POND ACCIDENTfrom Eyewitness News Online Search Resumes For Missing West Virginia Dozer Operator Reported by:  Associated PressWeb Producer: Jeff Morris Reported: Nov. 30, 2012 3:00 PM EST Updated: Dec. 3, 2012 2:24 PM EST
Clarksburg, Harrison County
, West Virginia
A search has resumed in north-central West Virginia for the missing operator of a bulldozer that plummeted into a Consol Energy coal slurry pond. U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere says federal, state and company officials gathered at the site Monday. The bulldozer is believed to be about 25 feet to 35 feet below the surface. The worker's name hasn't been released. Coal slurry impoundments are used to contain both solid refuse and the wastewater product known as slurry. On Friday an embankment at the impoundment collapsed at Consol's Robinson Run mine in Harrison County. Two engineers who also tumbled into the pond were rescued. Searchers are trying to pinpoint the location of a bulldozer that plummeted into a coal slurry pond in West Virginia. Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere says searchers believe the bulldozer is about 25 feet to 35 feet below the surface. They're using metal rods to confirm its location. Sheet pilings will be placed around the bulldozer to isolate it. Louviere says the hope is that divers can then enter the area and find the bulldozer operator. The worker has been missing since Friday when an embankment at the impoundment collapsed at Consol Energy's Robinson Run mine in Harrison County. Two engineers who also tumbled into the water were rescued. Coal slurry impoundments are used to contain both solid refuse and the waste-water product known as slurry. Emergency officials are draining a West Virginia coal slurry pond to search for a bulldozer operator who was unaccounted for after an embankment collapsed, sending three into the water. U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere says a "massive failure" occurred around 12:15 p.m. Friday at the Nolans Run impoundment of the Robinson Run mine in Harrison County. One dozer operator and two engineers were on the platform when it collapsed. Both engineers were rescued and were in non-critical condition. Governor's office spokeswoman Amy Shuler Goodwin says sonar detected an object in the pond and that officials were considering sending in divers. The water is about 12 feet deep. The mine is owned by Pennsylvania-based Consol. MSHA personnel are on site, along with company, state and union officials. Consol Energy says one of its workers is unaccounted and two others were hurt when an embankment collapsed, sending a bulldozer and two pickups into a coal slurry pond in north-central West Virginia. Spokeswoman Lynn Seay says it happened Friday afternoon at the Robinson Run Preparation Plant in Harrison County, but what caused the failure is unclear. One employee was transported to a local hospital and was reported alert and stable. Seay said that a second employee was airlifted to another hospital, and his condition wasn't immediately known. State investigators were headed to the scene, but the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training said it had no further details. Seay says Pennsylvania-based Consol will work closely with state and federal investigators, and release more details as it can. Consol Energy said one of its workers is unaccounted and two others were hurt when an embankment collapsed, sending a bulldozer and two pickups into a coal slurry pond in north-central West Virginia. Spokeswoman Lynn Seay said it happened Friday afternoon at the Robinson Run Preparation Plant in Harrison County, but what caused the failure is unclear. One employee was transported to a local hospital and was reported alert and stable. Seay said that a second employee was airlifted to another hospital, and his condition wasn't immediately known. State investigators were headed to the scene, but the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training said it had no further details. Seay says Pennsylvania-based Consol will work closely with state and federal investigators, and release more details as it can. Authorities say firefighters and others are trying to rescue a worker from a coal slurry pond after an accident involving a truck and a bulldozer at a Consol Energy property in Harrison County. Emergency management chief Paul Bump says it's unclear how the accident occurred or how seriously people were hurt. But he says two workers were transported to hospitals and the attempted rescue of a third was under way Friday afternoon. Neither Pennsylvania-based Consol nor state mine-safety officials immediately commented on the accident at the Robinson Run preparation plant near Lumberport. Media outlets say it happened while crews were working on the earthen dam. MORE NEWS FROM EYEWITNESS NEWS
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