MOUNT MORRIS, Pa. (AP) - A West Virginia man is dead after a mining accident in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Officials with the Morgantown, West Virginia-based Mepco say 31-year-old Jeremy Neice was fatally injured Saturday evening near Mount Morris, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh.
Green County emergency authorities say the Danville, West Virginia man was in an accident around 6 p.m.
Mine officials say they have suspended operations at the mine and that federal and state mine safety agencies have been notified. They say the company is "deeply saddened" by Neice's loss.
The accident comes about six months after the state Department of Environmental Protection cited Mepco for another miner's death at the same mine.