Cumberland, MD (April 15, 2010) The family of Michael R. Wilt, age 38, who was crushed beneath 93,000 tons of fallen rock at the Tri-Star Mine in Barton, Maryland has filed a Four Million ($4,000,000.00) Dollar lawsuit today in the Circuit Court for Allegany County against the operators of the Tri-Star coal mine as well as mining engineers, the safety training expert and the mine’s landowner for willful and recklessly unsafe conditions in violation of the law that caused a fatal highwall collapse on April 17, 2007.