Mine Worker Killed In Somerset County Mine Accident

HOLLSOPPLE, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a mining company employee was crushed to death in an accident involving a shuttle car in a western Pennsylvania mine. LCT Energy said in a statement that the man became trapped between the car and an interior wall of the company’s Maple Springs mine near Hollsopple on Monday. The Somerset Count coroner, Cullen Swank, identified him as 37-year-old Brandon Frederick of Johnstown and said he sustained multiple blunt force injuries. The death was ruled accidental. The state Department of Environmental Protection has ordered the operators of the Conemaugh Township mine to temporarily cease operations in the affected section.