FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2013, photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., right, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, join a bipartisan group of leading senators to announce that they have reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws at the Capitol in Washington. Rubio, a leading proponent of overhauling the immigration system who has gained attention in GOP circles, will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2013, photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., right, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, join a bipartisan group of leading senators to announce that they have reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws at the Capitol in Washington. Rubio, a leading proponent of overhauling the immigration system who has gained attention in GOP circles, will deliver the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing. When President Barack Obama declared Hagel would be the first former enlisted man to lead the Pentagon, he seemed to overlook four previous defense chiefs who served at least part of their military years as enlisted men. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Armed Services Committee's confirmation hearing. Countering the Republican-led opposition to President Barack Obama's nominee for defense secretary is a less flashy but powerful constituency _ military veterans. Longstanding veterans' organizations have praised Hagel, a twice-wounded combat veteran of Vietnam and deputy administrator in President Ronald Reagan's Veterans Administration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, June 30, 2006 file photo Angel Maria Villar Llona, FIFA Vice President and Chairman of the Referees Committee gestures during a press conference in Berlin. FIFA anti-corruption adviser Mark Pieth believes European officials are blocking reforms in world football to further their own careers. Pieth told the Associated Press that he looked for influential UEFA members to show more independence as their president Michel Platini _ the favorite to lead FIFA in 2015 _ makes "unanimous declarations" on their behalf. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns, File)
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FILE - In this July 6, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they walk to Netanyahu's car outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. After a long and chilly four years, Barack Obama hopes to reset his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his first trip to Israel as president this spring. And it could be a step toward reopening a pathway toward peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, although Obama is carrying no big new Mideast peace plan(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2011 file photo Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval speaks during a memorial service in Reno, Nev. Sandoval, along with New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, will head up a new Republican effort to recruit Hispanic and female candidates for state offices across the country. (AP Photo/Kevin Clifford,File)
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File-This Jan. 23,2013 file photo New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is shown at the Albuquerque Motor Vehicle Department during a news conference. Martinez and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval will head up a new Republican effort to recruit Hispanic and female candidates for state offices across the country. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras,File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, gestures while speaking in a building under construction in Washington. Loose ends and thorny partisan tensions on education await the next Congress and President Barack Obama's second term. First up is the fiscal cliff, which will slash billions from the Department of Education's budget if lawmakers don't act this year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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FILE - This May 4, 2012 file photo shows President Barack Obama, center, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, right, meeting with students and their parents at Washington-Lee high school in Arlington, Va. Loose ends and thorny partisan tensions on education await the next Congress and President Barack Obama's second term. First up is the fiscal cliff, which will slash billions from the Department of Education's budget if lawmakers don't act this year. From left are, Brendan Craig, Kezia Truesdale, Amirah Delwin, Rina Castaneda, Elma Molina, and Tim Craig. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - This July 19, 2012 file photo shows Education Secretary Arne Duncan during an interviewed wth The Associated Press in Washington. Loose ends and thorny partisan tensions on education await the next Congress and President Barack Obama's second term. First up is the fiscal cliff, which will slash billions from the Department of Education's budget if lawmakers don't act this year. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Worker crushed to death at southern W.Va. mine
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (
AP) — A West Virginia coal miner has been crushed to death under a piece of equipment at a Raleigh County coal mine, state and federal regulators said Friday.
The victim's identity was not immediately released, but officials say it happened Thursday night at Pocahontas Coal Co.'s Affinity Mine.
MSHA says the miner was pushing a scoop bucket insert full of trash onto a hoist when the hoist moved unexpectedly. The preliminary investigation suggests the hoist picked up the scoop and trapped the victim underneath.
In March 2012, MSHA listed the Affinity mine among three that had been caught giving illegal, advance warning that inspectors were onsite the month before.
MSHA chief Joe Main has repeatedly said that such warnings let workers hide conditions that could endanger their lives and the lives of others. Main has pushed for higher penalties and fines to deter the practice, but so far, Congress has yet to act.
This is the second equipment-related death in West Virginia this week.
On Wednesday, 34-year-old Brandon Townsend of Delbarton died when a hydraulic jack exploded on a belt press at Midland Trail Energy's Blue Creek preparation plant in Kanawha County. Another worker was injured.
Midland Trail is owned by Patriot Coal.
Investigations into both accidents are under way.
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