- Wharton, West Virginia
Wharton is an unincorporated community on the Pond Fork River in Boone County in the
U.S. state ofWest Virginia . Wharton lies alongWest 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 GovernorJoe Manchin to call for a "stand-down on mine safety" at West Virginia's mines.External links
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