Man electrocuted in Massey mine

MELVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training is investigating an electrocution at Aracoma Coal’s Alma No. 1 mine, the same Logan County mine where two miners died in a 2006 belt line fire.

Agency spokeswoman Jama Jarrett identified the latest victim as 24-year-old Nathan Dove of Chattaroy.

Jarrett says the underground electrician was repairing a shuttle car when Friday night’s accident occurred. The cause isn’t yet known.

A call to a spokesman for Richmond, Va.-based Massey Energy, Aracoma’s parent company, wasn’t immediately returned Saturday.

Last month, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration presented the mine with a safety award.

Dove’s death marks West Virginia’s second coal mine-related death of 2008 and the nation’s ninth.