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June 24, 1997 KY · Coal OTHER
Stone Mining Company · Drowning

ACCORDING TO KENTUCKY STATE POLICE, 3 INDIVIDUALS WERE TRESPASSING AT AN IMPOUNDMENT WHEN ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS EITHER JUMPED OR FELL INTO THE IMPOUNDMENT. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, THE VICTIM IMMEDIATELY BEGAN STRUGGLING AND DROWNED.

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