Fatal Accident At Western Kentucky Mine

{Centertown, Kentucky}...A statement from the Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing has identified the workers killed killed Friday morning at Armstrong Coal's Equality mine in Ohio County in western Kentucky as 47 year old Darrel Winstead and 33 year old Samuel Lindsey. Officials say the two men were on a blasting crew from MEMSCO, a subsidiary of Midland Powder Co. of Evansville, Indiana and were driving near a highwall when their truck was inundated by rock and earth at around 6:35 A.M. CDT. Rescuers worked most of the morning to reach the men under the rubble. Ohio County coroner Larry Bevil says crews reached the men around noon CDT, but he says the workers were likely killed immediately by the "huge pile" of rock.