| A federal criminal indictment has been issued against Massey Coal employees for obstructing the investigation of a 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners at the company's Upper Big Branch Mine.
The indictment accuses Hughie Elbert Stover, 60, of lying to an FBI agent and a federal Mine Safety and Health Administration inspector.
It also charges Stover ordered an employee to dispose of thousands of pages of security documents from the Raleigh County mine nine months after the explosion.
The April 5 blast was the deadliest at a U.S. coal mine since 1970.
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