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Virginia Agency Rules Coal-Mining Death as Electrocution.

Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA)

Byline: Greg Edwards

May 13--Virginia's only coal-mining death this year has been ruled a low-voltage electrocution.

Jackie Lee Austin, 32, of Castlewood, collapsed Jan. 21 in the Dorchester Enterprises Inc. Mine No. 4 in Wise County. He was transported to a Big Stone Gap hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Four miners were killed in Virginia last year.

A just-released investigation by the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy and the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has determined that Austin died after he came in contact with a metal trailer or steel beams that had "most likely" been energized by a damaged …

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