HARLAN, Ky. — A miner who went missing following a roof fall at a Harlan County mine has died.

LEX 18 reports that officials confirmed the death.

James D. Brown, 33, of Lynch began his shift as a roof bolter operator late Sunday at the D-29 Darby Fork mine in Harlan County, which is owned by Inmet Mining LLC, of Knoxville, Tenn., the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet said.

The collapse happened about an hour later, some 14,000 feet down into the coal mine, the cabinet’s statement said.