Wharton, West Virginia
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Wharton is an unincorporated community on the Pond Fork River in Boone County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Wharton lies along West Virginia Route 85.
On February 1, 2006, a miner was killed at an underground mine in Wharton when a wall support popped loose. This fatality along with another one in a separate incident in Uneeda, also in Boone County, caused West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to call for a "stand-down on mine safety" at West Virginia's mines.
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