WEST FRANKFORT – A West Frankfort man lost his life in an accident early Saturday morning at the Hamilton County Coal facility in Dahlgren.

The Hamilton County Coroner’s Office tells us the man is 41-year-old Cameron Fourez.

Just after 2 a.m. Saturday, Fourez was fatally injured as a result of a roof fall in the area where he was in the process of installing supplemental roof support.

Co-workers reached Fourez and attempted resuscitation while transporting him to the surface of the mine. Unfortunately, Fourez was pronounced dead at 3:13 a.m. at Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro.  

According to Jay Emery, General Manager of Operations at Hamilton County Coal, LLC, appropriate state and federal agencies were notified of the accident, and investigations by those agencies and Hamilton County Coal, LLC are ongoing.