Rosebud vice president Jim Barker told the Associated Press Wednesday morning that one of the workers was treated and released just after the fall Monday afternoon at its Tracy Lynne room and pillar mine in Armstrong County.
The other was released from a local medical center on Tuesday.
Neither Rosebud nor US Mine Safety and Health Administration officials have released the workers’ names.
Barker told ILN Tuesday that some initial scanner communications following the incident about 40 miles from Pittsburgh led local outlets to report a roof fall with trapped miners, but confirmed that that the reality was more minor.
“We had a piece of draw rock a couple feet wide by 5-6 feet long and about 2-3 inches thick fall out between existing roof support … and hit a couple guys who were hanging canvas under the area,” he said.
“While it is an accident, it is certainly nothing the news originally thought it was,” he said.
The two were about six miles in and 400 feet underground at the time of the fall.
The Tracy Lynne operation, which was still closed Wednesday pending the completion of state and federal investigations, began operations in March 1997 and extracts from the Lower Kittanning seam.
