FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 10, 2025
UMWA Extends Thoughts and Prayers to Trapped Miner at the Rolling Thunder Mine, West Virginia
[TRIANGLE, VA] – Responding to the recent fatality and missing underground miner in West Virginia, United Mine Workers of America International President Brian Sanson issued the following statement today:
“The coal mining family has suffered two incidents in the last week in West Virginia: a fatality in Tucker County and now a missing miner in Nicholas County. I have ordered our safety experts to the Rolling Thunder mine in Nicholas County to provide professional assistance to the teams working to find the missing miner.
“The hearts and prayers of the entire United Mine Workers of America family go out to these miners and their families. Even though the workers at these two mines are not members of the UMWA, that doesn’t matter at a time like this. We are all coal miners, and we all care about the safety and health of each other.”
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