Rock from Mine Site Smashes Pike County Home

Posted by: Dave Newton on January 22, 2009 at 07:00pm

Mine shut down after boulder rolls through house
The Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- State officials have ordered a mining company to stop work at a site in eastern Kentucky after a rolling boulder destroyed a house.

The Kentucky Department for Natural Resources says it shut down work at a Pike County site run by Central Appalachia Mining Kentucky, LLC.

The state says a rock from the company's Marion Branch mine at Island Creek tumbled 500 feet and crashed into a home below the site on Wednesday. No one was injured, but the home was deemed unlivable...

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