Indiana Mine Accident Kills Three
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PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) – An accident at an air shaft under construction in a southern Indiana coal mine killed three people Friday, police said.
Detective Mike Hurt said the people died in a basket used to transport people up and down a 600-foot air shaft, but he could say whether they fell.
Authorities did not believe there had been a cave-in or an explosion, he said.
Crews were working to remove the bodies at Gibson County Coal after the late-morning accident, Sergeant Jay Riley said.
A message left at the Gibson County coroner’s office was not immediately returned.
The mine, owned by Tulsa, Okla.-based Alliance Resource Partners, is northwest of Princeton, about 30 miles north of Evansville.
