{"id":4088,"date":"2023-03-07T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:20:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:20:41","slug":"three-injured-in-montana-mine-cave-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/three-injured-in-montana-mine-cave-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Three injured in Montana mine cave-in\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A trio of workers are reportedly still recovering from serious injuries after a portion of the longwall collapsed at Signal Peak Energy\u2019s Bull Mountain coal operation in southern Montana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<figure id=\"attachment_4090\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4090\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4090\" src=\"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BullMountain_underground.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BullMountain_underground.jpg 901w, https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BullMountain_underground-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo: Signal Peak Energy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musselshell County Disaster and Emergency Services Director Justin Russell told the <em>Associated Press<\/em> the incident occurred on February 28, and the cave-in\u2019s cause is not known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An investigation by federal regulators has begun. The current operating status of Bull Mountain is not known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mine, located in Roundup, first opened in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, a Montana federal judge denied a decision by the U.S. Interior Department granting permission to expand Bull Mountain, finding \u201csufficiently serious\u201d errors in the government\u2019s environmental review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sources: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krtv.com\/news\/montana-and-regional-news\/3-miners-seriously-injured-at-signal-peak-energy-near-roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>KRTV<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/montana\/articles\/2023-03-01\/underground-coal-mine-collapse-injures-3-in-montana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Associated Press <\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/montanafreepress.org\/2023\/02\/13\/judge-blocks-coal-mine-expansion-sought-by-signal-peak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><em>Montana Free Press<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of workers are reportedly still recovering from serious injuries after a portion of the longwall collapsed at Signal Peak Energy\u2019s Bull Mountain coal operation in southern Montana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[495],"tags":[1794,1520,851],"coauthors":[1644],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-bull-mountain","tag-mine-accident","tag-signal-peak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/BullMountain_underground.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}