September 20, 2024

Tri-State Mining Accident Scene Update !!, John’s shovel and John working loading trucks from the collapsed high wall

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Tri-State Mining Accident Scene , John’s shovel and John working loading trucks from the collapsed high wall


SLUG: me/mine
DATE: April 18, 2007
CREDIT: Ricky Carioti / TWP.
LOCATION: Airspace above Tri Star Mining in Barton, Md.
EDITOR: REMOTE
SUMMARY: Rescue personnel and mining crews try to save to trapped miners who were buried when a wall collapsed at the Tri-Star Mine #3 in Barton, Md.
CAPTION: Large dump trucks haul away boulders where the side of a mine collapsed and trapped two miners at the Tri Star Minning company in Barton, Md.

Tri-State Mining Accident Scene , John’s shovel and John working loading trucks from the collapsed high wall

I just got a update from Johns friend and he said they are getting closer to the machines and the trapped operators. He said they may have to blast one more time to make certain no more hi-wall falls on Johns shovel.
You can see the big whole they were working in in this picture and see how much rock and dirt fell on them.
Very sad !!, We are praying for them.