Updated: 11/24/2009 7:52:40 PM
State officials say a crane accident at a mining site in southeastern Kentucky has fatally wounded a worker.
Energy and Environment Cabinet spokeswoman Ricki Gardenhire says 37-year-old Leslie D. Trent of Hazard was struck by a crane arm at around 6 p.m. EST Monday.
Trent was working for New York-based Frontier-Kemper Constructors at a site owned by Perry County Coal Corp.
Gardenhire says Trent and another worker were changing equipment on a crane when the arm fell several feet and landed on them.
Trent was flown to the University of Tennessee Hospital in Knoxville, where he later died. The other worker suffered a severe cut on the head and was taken to University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington. His condition was not known Tuesday afternoon.
Feds blame low oxygen for Ala. coal mine death
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is blaming low oxygen for the death of a coal miner at a west Alabama mine.
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says the miner and a partner encountered an area of apparent low oxygen during a weekly inspection about 2 a.m. Tuesday at the Jim Walters No. 7 Mine near Brookwood.
The second miner and four rescuers were hospitalized as well.
The federal agency's spokeswoman, Amy Louviere, says the cause of low oxygen hasn't been determined. However, MSHA says the men were conducting a weekly examination of a system used to control air flow and dilute methane and other gases and dust.
MSHA, Alabama and the United Mine Workers are investigating.
