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Mine Worker Dies Saving Crew in Nicholas County Mine
The flooding was caused by striking a water pocket and breaching an old mine wall, with over a dozen miners safely accounted for, officials said.
- On Thursday, Nov. 13, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced a two-man crew recovered foreman Steve Lipscomb's body just before 9 a.m. inside Rolling Thunder Mine near Belva, Nicholas County.
- A mining crew hit an unknown water pocket last Saturday, leading to flooding after an old mine wall was compromised despite a February report by Marshall Miller & Associates indicating no hydrologic concerns.
- Rescue teams drilled holes and deployed dive teams while the National Cave Rescue Commission provided surplus Army phones for underground communication, with pumps operating at approximately 6,000 gallons per minute and extra units added on Wednesday, Nov. 12.
- More than a dozen miners were accounted for and several evacuated safely, while the death is the third at an Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc. facility in West Virginia this year.
- Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc. operates Rolling Thunder Mine, one of 11 underground West Virginia mines, and also runs surface mines and Virginia operations; past flooding includes the 2002 Quecreek rescue and 1968 Hominy Falls.
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Coal miner found dead in Rolling Thunder coal mine in Nicholas County
The coal miner, missing since Nov. 8, 2025, following a flooding incident in the Rolling Thunder coal mine near Swiss in Nicholas County, West Virginia, has been found dead, according to Gov. Patrick Morrisey. He posted the information on X at 8:55 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2025.
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