28 SEPTEMBER 2023 WorldWide Drilling Resource® Time for a Little Fun! August Puzzle Solution: Win a prize! Send completed puzzle to: WWDR PO Box 660 Bonifay, FL 32425 fax: 850-547-0329 or e-mail: michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com Write the answer to clue 1. in its block space. To answer clue 2., drop one letter, put it into column A, and rearrange the remaining letters. To answer clue 3., drop another letter and put it into column B and rearrange. Do this for each row. The letters in columns A and B will spell out an infrastructure word. CLUES 1. piano repairman 2. smallest puppy 3. pecan 4. take along 5. ship’s jail 6. chest bone 7. all / entire 8. extremely 9. increase engine speed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tornado Damaged Mine in Wyoming Compiled by Editorial Staff WorldWide Drilling Resource® At 6:07 p.m. on June 23, 2023, the Campbell County Fire Department was notified of a tornado which had struck the west side of the North Antelope Rochelle Mine (NARM) site, 65 miles south of Gillette, Wyoming. Fire department resources responded, performed search and rescue operations, and contained various hazardous materials that leaked as a result of the weather event. Over 30 fire department staff, along with emergency management, sheriff’s office, school district, electric companies, and emergency medical services personnel, assisted the NARM Mine Rescue and Black Thunder Mine Rescue Teams. Six workers from the large surface mine required hospital treatment, while hundreds of others escaped injury. They are especially fortunate since the timing of the tornado was during a shift change when more mine workers were on-site. Bay doors were torn from the mine’s fire and emergency station building, the roof of the change house was ripped off, and metal siding was peeled from cement silos, which are used to load coal onto trains. Over a dozen coal cars were blown over on a rail track. Several vehicles had been pushed into one another, and one truck had a piece of metal siding hanging out of its passenger window. Mine operator Peabody Energy released a statement regarding cleanup. Initial focus is on fixing the train loading dock so coal could continue to be shipped. Other parts of the mine will require power line restoration before they can return to operation. NARM produced 60.4 million tons of coal last year, which was shipped via rail.
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