One person is dead after an excavator rolled over at the Catenary Coal Company Samples Mine on Tuesday. “At about 10:05, we got a third-party call and they said they had some equipment rolled over at the White Oak area of Orgas,” Boone County Director of Emergency Management Greg Lay told the Coal Valley News on Tuesday afternoon. “After the crews got on the scene, they discovered the fatality,” Lay said. “They had been working around a pond, I don’t know if they were using the excavator to dig out a ditch or clean out the pond, but they were working around a pond,” he said. The accident happened at the Catenary Coal Co., Samples Mine sometime around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, according to officials. Boone County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Chad Barker, who responded to the accident, said he did not believe the accident was caused by faulty equipment, though a state agency has began a full investigation into the accident. At the time of this printing, the name of the deceased had not yet been released, as the familiy had not been notified. Officials were able to confirm that the deceased was an employee of the coal mine.