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Article: Morgantown man dies in fall at mine
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 17, 2000
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WANA - A Morgantown man died in a fall at the Blacksville No. 2
coal mine in Monongalia County, the second West Virginia miner to
die on the job this week. Dan Dalton, 23, was an employee of Boyce
Graybeal & Sayre Inc. of Slab Fork in Raleigh County.
The contracting company has been upgrading the preparation plant
at the mine near Wana, just a few miles from the Pennsylvania state
line.
Warren Boyce, president of the company, said the victim fell into
a tank Wednesday while installing a piece of machinery.
It is the firm's first fatality, Boyce said.
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