TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Alabama June 9 2013– The mining company employee who died at a mine in Tuscaloosa County on Thursday evening has been identified as 36-year-old Christopher G. Brown, of Pleasant Grove, according to a statement from Walter Energy.Brown was a supervisor at Walter Energy's No. 7 Mine West in Tuscaloosa County, where he had worked for five years.
Preliminary reports indicate Brown was working underground on or near a conveyor belt when he died about 6:15 p.m. Thursday, the statement says.
Brown died on the scene after he fell from a walkway onto equipment that was in operation, police said Friday morning.
Federal and state mining agencies, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Department, safety officials with Walter Eneregy and the United Mine Workers of America are investigating the incident.
According to the statement, employees at Walter Energy's No. 7 Mine West and No. 7 Mine East were sent home after the incident, and the owl shift and day shift did not report to work to honor a 24-hour mourning period. At the same mine in November 2009, an inspector died and others were taken to a hospital after being overcome by extreme heat in the coal mine.
Source- AL.com