A security chief at Massey Energy Co.'s (MEE) Upper Big Branch
mine in West Virginia pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges
of disposing of thousands of pages of documents, the Associated
Press reported.
Hughie Elbert Stover, who entered his plea before a U.S.
magistrate judge in Beckley, W.Va., is accused of lying to federal
investigators and ordering another Massey employee to dispose of
documents relating to security at the mine.
Stover is the first person facing criminal charges in connection
with the April 2010 explosion at Upper Big Branch that killed 29
miners.
The explosion remains the subject of a federal grand jury probe
and civil investigations.
Massey, based in Richmond, Va., has denied wrongdoing.
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