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Official: Worker dies in accident at mine site
HAZARD, Ky. — State officials say a crane accident at a mining site in southeastern Kentucky has fatally wounded a worker.
Energy and Environment Cabinet spokeswoman Ricki Gardenhire says 37-year-old Leslie D. Trent of Hazard was struck by a crane arm at around 6 p.m. EST Monday.
Trent was working for New York-based Frontier-Kemper Constructors at a site owned by Perry County Coal Corp.
Gardenhire says Trent and another worker were changing equipment on a crane when the arm fell several feet and landed on them.
Trent was flown to the University of Tennessee Hospital in Knoxville, where he later died. The other worker suffered a severe cut on the head and was taken to University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington. His condition was not known Tuesday afternoon.
