By AP
Saline County, IL – Saline County, Illinois authorities have identified the miner killed at a troubled Peabody Energy mine in southern Illinois as 61-year-old Thomas N. Brown of Eddyville, Kentucky. Brown was struck by a piece of heavy underground equipment at Peabody Energy's Willow Lake mine Friday. He was a section foreman.
The mine has been closed while officials from the Mine Safety and Health Administration and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources investigate the accident.
MSHA recently singled out Willow Lake as particularly dangerous. The agency has fined Peabody $230,000 for violations at the mine since late 2008.