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The mine flooded after an old wall “was compromised,” and multiple state agencies were involved in the response, Morrisey said.

The death is the third at an Alpha facility in West Virginia this year. Both of the others occurred in nearby Raleigh County:

An elevator being tested struck a miner on a first-floor platform in August at Alpha subsidiary Marfork Coal’s processing facility, and a coal seam fell on a contractor in February at Alpha’s Black Eagle underground operation, according to the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.