Published: March 10, 2009 08:31 am      

Worker killed in western Pa. coal mine accident

DILLINER — An autopsy is expected on the body of an electrical worker killed in a scissors lift accident at a western Pennsylvania coal mine.

State police say 41-year-old Richard Custer, of Eighty-Four, died Monday morning at the Poland Mine near Dunkard Creek in Dunkard Township, Greene County.

Police say Custer was on the scissors lift when a fork lift somehow tipped it over, throwing him to the ground.

Custer worked for T.P. Electric Inc., of Greensburg, where an employee says the company is investigating but otherwise not commenting Tuesday.

Custer died at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va. The Monongalia County Medical Examiner in West Virginia is investigating.