Chat piles around the Tar Creek Superfund site in northeast Oklahoma can be deadly. A chat pile accident on Friday in eastern Kansas killed a man.
Happened near Melvern, Kansas at the Harshman Construction rock quarry in Osage County.
Sheriff Laurie Dunn said a man was taking samples at the base of a large chat pile that gave way, burying him. Two workers witnessed the accident, and immediately began working to get him out.
Fire units soon arrived and began rescue efforts, Dunn said. She says they eventually got the man out from the rock pile, but he was deceased.
Source: WIBW TV