Worker killed in truck accident at Montana mine
The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 12 years, 1 month AGO
BILLINGS — A worker at a southeastern Montana coal mine has been killed during an accident involving a truck used to haul coal.
Wyoming-based Cloud Peak Energy says that there were no other injuries in the accident at its Spring Creek Mine strip mine near Decker.
Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere said Tuesday that the 230-ton truck crashed through a berm at about 7:30 p.m. Monday, killing the driver.
Federal mine safety officials were on the scene. Spring Creek employs about 280 people and produced more than 17 million tons of coal in 2013.
The last reported fatality at the mine was in 2006.
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