Harlan County Mine Officials Indicted

• {London, Kentucky}...A federal grand jury in London has indicted Manalapan Mining Company and three officials at the P-1 Mine in Pathfork, in Harlan County, where underground miner 46 year old David Partin was killed when a roof collapsed on June 29, 2011. The 32-count indictment charges Manalapan Mining Company and three officials with violating federal mine safety laws related to underground mine roof structures. It says the mine operations manager, superintendent and a foreman failed to report and record hazardous conditions at the mine, and preshift records kept by the officials dating from June 13th to June 28th were falsified. The indictments against Manalapan Mining name the P-1 mine's superintendent, Joseph Miniard, operations manager Jefferson Davis, and second shift foreman Bryant Massingale.