Southern Illinois miner killed in accident
According to Peabody Energy employees, a mine worker killed in an accident involving a shuttle car at it's mine southern Illinois.
Peabody, which runs the mine at Willow Lake, closed down oerpations the troubled mine, until they can find out how the accident happened and state and federal officials have been notified of the details.
The Willow Lake mine has been under the scanner of the The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has had the Willow Lake mine in its sight following several citations from the MSHA. According to Peabody, they have been aggressive in taking steps to improve the conditions at the mine.
The death of the worker at the Willow Lake mine comes days after competing Massey Energy Co (MEE.N: Quote), was being investigated for a deadly mine blast in April. A coal processing facility which was being built, was damaged by fire.
The Willow Lake mine, employs around 400 workers and has sold nearly 4 million tons of coal to Midwest utility customers in 2008, according to the website of Peabody, which sold 255 million tons of coal that year.
