PIKEVILLE — A state road contractor has been cited again in connection with a road-building blast in January that killed an eastern Kentucky man.

        The state Labor Cabinet released a four-part citation on Monday that charges Elmo Greer and Sons, of London, with blasting violations and proposes total fines of $18,000.

        The charge follows three citations against Greer by the state Department of Mines and Minerals stemming from the same incident.

        James H. Mollett, 56, of Staffordsville, a gas-well tender, suffocated Jan. 15 after his pickup truck was buried under 22 feet of debris from a blast in Pike County.

        Greer, the state's second-largest road contractor, is rebuilding a section of U.S. 119, about halfway between Pikeville and the West Virginia state line.

        An earlier report by Mines and Minerals investigators said Mr. Mollett was able to drive past two flagmen and an equipment operator to inspect a well because they were unaware of an impending blast.

        Instead of using a series of required siren blasts, or their equivalent, to warn residents and motorists, a company employee drove up and down the road in a pickup truck, honking its horn, the report said.

        The violations alleged by the Labor Cabinet are similar to citations issued on Jan. 24 by Mines and Minerals, said Jeffrey Morgan of Hazard, an attorney for Mr. Mollett's estate, which sued Greer in Pike County Circuit Court on Feb. 27.

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