CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia recorded its third coal-related fatality of the year Tuesday when a miner was killed after a line on a hoist car broke, sending it back into the underground mine.

Federal and state mining officials said 53-year-old Charles Dixon was standing at the bottom of a slope when the car, which was carrying two other miners out of the mine, hit him. The accident occurred about 7 a.m. at the Newtown Energy Eagle Mine near Winifrede, Kanawha Coun-ty.

The two miners, Daniel Ewing and Dave Morgan, were taken to the hospital for treatment. Their ages, extent of their injuries and addresses were not immediately available.

Dixon lived in Fayette County and his death was the first at a Newtown Energy mine, company president Bob Ellis said in a prepared statement.

Dixon had been working as a trackman at the mine since 2003. He obtained his miner’s card in 1981, Ellis said.

The company is cooperating with federal and state officials.

“We are deeply saddened by this loss,” said Bob Ellis, president of Newton Energy, Inc., in a press release. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Dixon’s family right now.”

According to federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s Web site, Tuesday’s fatality would be the nation’s 14th coal mining death this year.