Miners Trapped By Earthquake Cave-In
August 7, 2007
Six miners were trapped last night after a cave-in at a coal mine five miles from the epicentre of a minor earthquake in central Utah, authorities said.
The Genwal mine reported a “cave-in” at 3.50am, an hour after the magnitude 4.0 earthquake, the Emery County sheriff’s office said.
“Rescue workers are on the scene trying to locate six miners that are unaccounted for,” a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said.
There has been no contact with them, said Dirk Fillpot, a spokesman at the Mine Safety and Health Administration in Washington.
The miners were believed to be 1,500ft below the surface, about four miles from the mine entrance.
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