{"id":211240,"date":"2026-06-05T04:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:43:08","slug":"randy-fogle-first-pennsylvania-miner-rescued-from-quecreek-mine-dies-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/211240\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Fogle, first Pennsylvania miner rescued from Quecreek Mine, dies at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"

Randy Fogle, one of the Pennsylvania miners who was rescued from the Quecreek Mine in 2002, has died.<\/p>\n

Fogle died Wednesday<\/a>, almost 24 years after the dramatic Somerset County rescue that captured the nation.<\/a>\u00a0Fogle was the foreman when the Quecreek Mine flooded, trapping nine miners 240 feet underground.<\/p>\n

On July 24, 2002, 18 miners reported to work at the Quecreek Mine and headed into the mine at 3 p.m. One crew of nine headed south, while the other nine went east.<\/p>\n

All was well until just before 9 p.m. that night, when crews drilled into the abandoned Saxman Mine, sending 150 million gallons of groundwater flooding into Quecreek. One crew got out, but the other crew was trapped.<\/p>\n

Rescue crews drilled an air hole, began pumping water out of the mine, and fashioned a rescue shaft<\/a>. It took 77 hours, but all nine miners were brought out alive<\/p>\n

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Randy Fogle, the first of nine miners who were rescued from the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania in 2002, has died at the age of 68.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Getty Images \/ Deaner Funeral Home<\/p>\n

Fogle was the first miner rescued because he had been suffering chest pains. A year later, Fogle was the only one of the nine who were rescued to return to work in the mines until he eventually retired.<\/p>\n

Randy Fogle was 68 years old.<\/p>\n

\n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n

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