"Crews have found the body of the coal miner missing since a West Virginia mine flooded on Saturday, said the state's governor, Patrick Morrisey, on Thursday. Crews found the body inside Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc's Rolling Thunder Mine near Belva, about 50 miles east of the state capital of Charleston. A mining crew had hit an unknown pocket of water last Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the mine, which flooded after an old mine wall was compromised, Morrisey said."
"The death is the third at an Alpha facility in West Virginia this year. Both of the others occurred in nearby Raleigh county: an elevator being tested struck a miner on a first-floor platform in August at Alpha subsidiary Marfork Coal's processing facility, and a coal seam fell on a contractor in February at Alpha's Black Eagle underground operation, according to the US Mine Safety and Health Administration."
"Holes were drilled in the mine in an attempt to speed up the search process and dive teams explored potential areas in the water where air pockets might exist. The National Cave Rescue Commission provided surplus army phones attached to wires that can travel great distances to enable for better underground communication. Rolling Thunder is one of 11 underground mines operated in West Virginia by Tennessee-based Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc."
Rescue crews recovered the body of the coal miner who went missing after a flood at Rolling Thunder Mine near Belva. The mine flooded after a crew struck an unknown pocket of water about three-quarters of a mile in and an old mine wall was compromised. More than a dozen other miners were accounted for after the incident. The death is the third at an Alpha facility in West Virginia this year, following separate fatal incidents at Marfork Coal and Black Eagle operations. Holes were drilled and dive teams searched potential air pockets, and the National Cave Rescue Commission supplied long-range wired army phones. A February engineering report noted extensive historical exploration data for the area.
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