Coroner: Worker dies when rock falls in Indiana County mine
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HEILWOOD, Pa. (AP) — A county coroner says a worker was killed at a mine in west-central Pennsylvania after a large rock fell from the mine roof and crushed him.
Indiana County Coroner Jerry L. Overman Jr. says in a news release that the man — 29-year-old Todd Trimble of Gallitzin — was installing roof bolts at Rosebud Heilwood mine on Friday afternoon when the rock fell and he was trapped underneath.
The coroner says co-workers freed Trimble and took him to the surface, where paramedics had arrived.
The coroner pronounced the man dead at the scene.