Mitchell Power Plant is a large coal fired power station located on West Virginia Route 2 south of Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.
It has a 1206feet tall chimney, which was built in 1971.[1] This smokestack was once the tallest in the world for a short period of time. it is the sixth tallest, and still the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern United States.[2]
A second 1,000 foot tall smokestack was built in 2006 to comply with emission regulations. On March 6, a fire broke out at the top of the new stack trapping several construction workers just as they were finishing the installation of the stack's fiberglass liner.[3] Three of the workers were rescued by helicopter evacuation; a fourth worker at the site, Gerald Talbert, died from the accident.[4]