{"id":661247,"date":"2026-03-06T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/?p=661247"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:40:51","slug":"four-workers-suffer-burning-injuries-at-marshall-county-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2026\/03\/06\/four-workers-suffer-burning-injuries-at-marshall-county-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Four workers suffer burning injuries at Marshall County Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CAMERON, W.Va.<\/strong> &#8212; Four workers were injured Thursday afternoon after an accident involving chemicals at the Marshall County Mine near Cameron.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_661249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-661249\" style=\"width: 112px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-661249\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com\/wvmn-s3\/2026\/03\/Tom_Hart-V2-e1772818649293-112x150.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com\/wvmn-s3\/2026\/03\/Tom_Hart-V2-e1772818649293-112x150.webp 112w, https:\/\/s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com\/wvmn-s3\/2026\/03\/Tom_Hart-V2-e1772818649293.webp 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-661249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Hart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marshall County EMA Director Tom Hart said the emergency crews were dispatched at 3:15 p.m. to the Cameron Portal for four patients suffering burns. Marshall County EMS crews from both the Cameron and Moundsville stations were then dispatched to the mine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three crews responded to the call, the Cameron Volunteer Fire Department was notified as well and the Marshall County Decontamination Unit was placed on standby,&#8221; Hart said.<\/p>\n<p>Before arriving at the scene EMS crews were informed the incident involved at least four workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the Cameron Squad arrived on scene they were able to get a quick assessment on the patient conditions and they were receiving assistance from people at the Marshall County Mine,&#8221; Hart said.<\/p>\n<p>Hart said the weather was too bad to use an air medical transport, so the patients were taken to WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital and WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The type of chemical involved has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers transported by after chemical incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":593496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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