Big Branch mining explosion
The Massey Energy (NYSE:MEE) Company's Upper Big Branch mine was the location of an explosion which has seven confirmed dead, and 19 still missing or unaccounted for.
The Upper Big Branch mine is an underground mine located in West Virginia. Performance Coal Company, a subsidiary of Massey, operates the mine.
Mining deaths have been on the downswing, with deaths last year numbering only 34, the lowest number on record since they began to be counted.
There is no information being made available at this time at to the circumstances surrounding the remaining 19 miners unaccounted for. The explosion occurred at 3:00 PM EST.
Original statistics were six dead and 21 missing or unaccounted for at the mine.
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