Photo Gallery: MSHA Mine Rescue Contest
(June 1, 2012)
Images include:
- A rescue team makes preparations to begin its descent underground during a simulated mine emergency.
- A mine rescue team member checks for high levels of toxic gas with his methane detector.
- A mine rescue team member checks for high levels of toxic gas with his methane detector.
- Rescuers place breathing apparatus on an 'injured' miner before he is carried out of the mine.
- Rescuers place breathing apparatus on an 'injured' miner before he is carried out of the mine.
- Alpha Natural Resources' first four-legged mine rescue team member, Ginny, appears with trainer Bill Dotson.