Steven Lipscomb, a 42-year-old foreman from Elkview, West Virginia, died on<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nov. 8 after ensuring his entire crew escaped a sudden flood in the Rolling Thunder Mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials say a routine shift turned deadly when \u201can old mine wall was compromised, unleashing a massive surge of water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Lipscomb \u201cspent his final moments ensuring his men could escape to safety\u201d and that he \u201cstood his ground until every member of his crew was evacuated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rescuers located his body five days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alpha CEO Andy Eidson called his actions \u201cheroic\u201d and offered condolences to his wife and two daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lipscomb was a Marine veteran who survived a roadside bomb in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His wife said, \u201cI think Steven was a very selfless person\u2026 more worried about everybody else getting out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is remembered as a devoted father, respected miner, and a man whose life embodied service and sacrifice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Steven Lipscomb, a 42-year-old foreman from Elkview, West Virginia, died on Nov. 8 after ensuring his entire crew escaped a sudden flood in the Rolling Thunder Mine. Officials say a routine shift turned deadly when \u201can old mine wall was compromised, unleashing a massive surge of water.\u201d Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Lipscomb \u201cspent his final…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9434,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions\/9434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}