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Historical mining employment and cumulative fatality data YEAR PERSONS ANNUAL CUMMULATIVE YEAR PERSONS ANNUAL CUMMULATIVE EMPLOYED EMPLOYED 1877 17903 - - 1923 603 5 667 1878 14490 - - 1924 452 3 670 1879 8812 15 15 1925 347 2 672 1880 8322 11 26 1926 321 2 674 1881 8414 14 40 1927 304 0 674 1882 5760 13 53 1928 343 1 675 1883 4715 3 56 1929 326 5 680 1884 5453 9 65 1930 903 6 686 1885 5490 17 82 1931 2751 4 690 1886 6712 5 87 1932 3893 7 697 1887 9305 5 92 1933 4161 7 704 1888 9491 19 111 1934 3768 13 717 1889 8955 20 131 1935 3931 6 723 1890 8509 17 148 1936 3983 12 735 1891 9195 11 159 1937 3436 13 748 1892 9306 17 176 1938 3378 12 760 1893 10189 14 190 1939 3299 8 768 1894 11428 14 204 1940 3106 9 777 1895 10636 15 219 1941 2983 7 784 1896 10364 18 237 1942 4056 4 788 1897 12835 15 252 1943 3378 6 794 1898 11272 19 271 1944 3096 5 799 1899 9758 18 289 1945 2786 2 801 1900 10163 17 306 1946 3483 1 802 1901 9438 18 324 1947 3773 4 806 1902 9045 15 339 1948 3849 3 809 1903 9229 26 265 1949 4134 6 815 1904 9620 30 395 1950 4346 4 819 1905 10641 23 418 1951 4965 1 820 1906 9842 24 442 1952 4863 3 823 1907 7934 15 457 1953 5851 5 828 1908 7736 30 487 1954 5527 6 834 1909 7150 27 514 1955 5991 5 839 1910 6115 16 530 1956 8144 9 848 1911 5227 13 543 1957 7956 3 851 1912 3981 33 576 1958 6813 8 859 1913 3123 15 591 1959 7028 8 867 1914 2793 9 600 1960 7062 3 870 1915 2766 12 612 1961 7111 8 878
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YEAR PERSONS ANNUAL CUMMULATIVE YEAR PERSONS ANNUAL CUMMULATIVE EMPLOYED EMPLOYED 1916 1900 10 622 1962 6876 6 884 1917 1375 7 629 1963 7512 3 887 1918 929 15 644 1964 7136 5 892 1919 792 1 645 1965 6668 3 895 1920 611 10 655 1966 8315 12 907 1921 722 2 657 1967 8544 2 909 1922 766 5 662 1968 8906 6 915 1969 9741 4 919 1994/95 9435 5 1014 1970 10881 6 925 1995/96 9885 1 1015 1971 10945 9 934 1996/97 10935 6 1021 1972 11236 8 942 1997/98 11425 1 1022 1973 11509 5 947 1998/99 10774 2 1024 1974 11408 2 949 1999/00 9194 0 1024 1975 11372 2 951 2000/01 9179 1 1025 1976 10405 5 956 2001/02 8910 1 1026 1977 10187 6 962 2002/03 9147 3 1029 1978 9823 2 964 2003/04 9181 1 1030 1979 10143 2 966 2004/05 10594 4 1034 1980 11110 6 972 2005/06 11732 0 1034 1981 10635 3 975 2006/07 12553 3 1037 1982/83 9161 2 977 2007/08 10625 1 1038 1983/84 9474 2 979 2008/09 13080 2 1040 1984/85 9365 3 982 2009/10 12158 1 1041 1985/86 9123 2 984 2010/11 14368 1 1042 1986/87 9590 1 985 2011/12 16417 1 1043 1987/88 10840 2 987 1988/89 11107 6 993 1989/90 11285 3 996 1990/91 10611 10 1006 1991/92 10643 0 1006 1992/93 9565 1 1007 1993/94 9270 2 1009
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Individual incident data
MINE: Old Identity PC MINE: No. 1 North Phoenix Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 1879 DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 June 1881 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Miner INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he came to the MINE: General Wyndham Battery surface for a few minutes by the south DATE OF INCIDENT: 1879 compartment of the shaft, when the cage SEX: Male remained for him to return, on returning ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface he stepped into the other compartment INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst operating and fell 330 feet. machinery. MINE: No. 2 & 3 South Smithfield MINE: No. 4 North Australian DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 August 1881 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1879 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was knocked INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth. down by a tank into a well and drowned.
MINE: Day Dawn Shaft DATE OF INCIDENT: 1879 MINE: No. 1 South Phoenix Mine SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 August 1881 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured from falling down the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst drilling a hole close to another that had been charged and MINE: Palmer River Gold Field fired, charge had not completely DATE OF INCIDENT: 1880 exploded, as the jar in drilling the fresh SEX: Male hole exploded what remained. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst landing a prop when MINE: No. 1 South True Blue he missed his footing and fell back down DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 September 1881 the shaft. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Etheridge Gold Field INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 June 1880 whilst trying to land a bucket of mullock SEX: Male on the brace. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. MINE: No. 1 South True Blue DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 September 1881 MINE: Unknown SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 August 1880 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst attempting to step ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground off at the 400 feet level and was crushed INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth. by an ascending cage.
MINE: Unknown MINE: South Glanmire and Monkland DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 October 1880 DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 October 1881 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from leg fractures when INCIDENT: Fatally injured when ascending on a tank he fell down a shaft. that had been some time at the bottom of the shaft. Deceased fell with the tank.
MINE: Golden Crown Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 October 1881 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a bucket whilst ascending the western shaft. He fell approximately 130 feet.
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MINE: Tryconnel PC Lease MINE: No. 6 Lady Mary Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 1881 DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 May 1882 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they INCIDENT: Fatally injured by the fall of a bucket fell from a level in which one had taken down the main shaft, caused by the and one was taking refuge during the coupling of the chain breaking just as the firing of a charge below. bucket reached the top of the shaft. MINE: John Bull Mine, Woolgar MINE: B B Mine, Thornborough DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 May 1882 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1881 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Miner INCIDENT: Fatally injured from an explosion of ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground charge – supposed to have put a match INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a portion of hanging in the hole with paper from his pocket wall fell and crushed him against the foot before ramming. wall. MINE: Etheridge Gold Fields MINE: Spero Meliora Claim DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 June 1882 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 February 1881 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Found fatally injured in his drive after INCIDENT: Fatally injured after misplacing his foot several days, having been working whilst stepping into a bucket which would alone. take him to the surface and he fell to the bottom of the shaft. MINE: Herberton Gold Fields DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 August 1882 MINE: Better Luck Claim SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 May 1881 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst fixing the detonating ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground cap with his teeth, thereby causing it to INCIDENT: Fatally injured after falling off a ladder in explode. the shaft from a broken rung. MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine, Charters MINE: North Glanmire, Gympie Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 January 1882 DATE OF INCIDENT: September 1882 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he commenced to INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went in pull down rock which had been blasted immediately after firing a charge and the by the previous shift when it fell upon rock fell on him, crushing him. him. MINE: Peabody Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Queenslander Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 November 1882 DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 January 1882 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down an INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to suffocation when underlie 120 feet. he went down a shaft when candles would not burn and fell off the ladder MINE: Conolly’s Creek Mine, Ravenswood when trying to return to the surface. DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 November 1882 SEX: Male MINE: Ida Mine, Palmer Gold Fields ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 February 1992 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught by a SEX: Male fall of earth, from which he died a few ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground weeks later. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell out of a bucket when going down a shaft. MINE: Exeter Mine, Woolgar DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 January 1883 MINE: Day Dawn Mine, Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 March 1882 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when several thousand tons of reef fell, crushing both victims.
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MINE: No. 5 N Block Queen, Charters Towers MINE: Great Northern Mine, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 March 1883 DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 August 1884 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when drilling out a charge of dynamite, and some granite debris MINE: Bryan O’Lynn Mine, Charters Towers had fallen into the hole. DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 October 1883 SEX: Male MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 October 1884 SEX: Male MINE: No. 3 & 4 Just in Time Mine, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock from a DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 February 1884 hanging wall. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: No. 2 & 3 Smithfield Mine, Gympie INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to an explosion of DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 November 1884 gas. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Lucknow PC, Gympie INCIDENT: Died in hospital on 5 December 1884. DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 February 1884 Said to be caused by lung disease, but SEX: Male had not recovered from the effects of a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground fall of rock received on 17 November INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a bucket and drills 1884. fell down the shaft and hit him in the head. MINE: Hope Gold Mining Co, Charters Towers MINE: Louisa Reef, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 January 1885 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 March 1884 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. Died on INCIDENT: A boy, between 7 and 8 years of age 18 January 1885. was fatally injured when he fell down a shaft which was only partially covered MINE: No. 3 N Phoenix Mine, Gympie and not in use. DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 February 1885 SEX: Male MINE: North Queen Gold Mining Co, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his head was caught DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 March 1884 by a descending cage at surface level. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Victory Mine, Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock whilst DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 March 1885 clearing up after a shot. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Band of Hope Mine, Gympie INCIDENT: Fatally injured from an explosion of DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 July 1884 dynamite whilst tamping. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: North Lady Mary Mine, Gympie INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the deceased DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 March 1885 drowned after falling down a shaft 40 feet SEX: Male deep with 10 or 12 feet of water in it. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 100 feet MINE: El Dorado Gold Mine, Gympie down an underlie shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 August 1884 SEX: Male MINE: Mosman Gold Mining Co, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down the DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 April 1885 shaft 110 feet and died later from internal SEX: Male injuries on 6 September 1884. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a shot explosion.
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MINE: Publican’s Purse, Northcote MINE: Great Extended, Ravenswood Silver DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 May 1885 Mine, One Mile SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 July 1886 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went in too soon ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground supposing the charge had mis-fired. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the brace of the mine down the shaft, a MINE: North Queen Lease 416, Charters depth o 700 feet. Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 June 1885 MINE: London Mine, Croydon SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 October 1886 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured from an explosion of nitro- ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground glycerine (from dynamite) in water. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst drilling out a missed charge which exploded under the drill. MINE: North Lady Mary Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 August 1885 MINE: Revenge Mine, Charters Towers Gold SEX: Male Fields ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 July 1886 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 300 feet SEX: Male down a shaft with a slight underlie. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a misfired charge MINE: Durham Mine, Etheridge Gold Fields of dynamite. DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 August 1885 SEX: Male MINE: Dan O’Connell Mine, Charters Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Gold Fields INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a bucket DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 September 1886 whilst descending the shaft. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: May Day Mine, Woolgar Gold Fields INCIDENT: Fatally injured when struck by a fragment DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 September 1885 of rock. SEX: Male MINE: Golden Gate Mine, Charters Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Gold Fields INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 October 1886
SEX: Male MINE: Welcome Claim, Morinish ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 August 1885 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the stage he was on SEX: Male gave way. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground
INCIDENT: Four men were fatally injured when they MINE: Eastward Ho Mine, Charters Towers holed into old workings where water was Gold Fields standing, which carried the stowed DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 December 1887 mullock down the underlie and was SEX: Male followed by foul air, thus the men were OCCUPATION: Trucker either suffocated or drowned. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground
INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in pushing MINE: Old Shaft Mine, Charters Towers a truck along the drive. A piece of rock DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 November 1885 weighing about 6 cwt fell from the roof as SEX: Male he was passing and crushed him. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface
INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they MINE: King’s Freehold Silver Mine fell down an old shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 November 1887
SEX: Male MINE: Day Dawn Block Mine, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured when struck by a fall of DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 December 1885 rock from the face above where he was SEX: Male drilling a hole. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground
INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a poker fell from the MINE: Cumberland PC Mine bucket and penetrated his shoulder. DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 November 1887
SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock.
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MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine MINE: Bonnie Dundee No. 2 Shaft DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 January 1888 DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 July 1888 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst standing in an INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst underlie shaft with the signal wire in hand sinking a vertical shaft. They had gone to arrest the ascending truck in order to below to charge a round of holes and fire gain a few minutes in leaving work. He them. Both men had been thrown by the was struck by the descending truck and blast. thrown 300 feet down the underlie. MINE: Llankelly Mine, Coen River MINE: Band of Hope Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 February 1888 DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 July 1888 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Contractor INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst sinking a shaft. He MINE: Llankelly Mine, Coen River was boring in the butt of a hole in which DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 February 1888 a charge had exploded and had blown SEX: Male off the collar of the hole. It was thought ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground that the whole charge had gone off, but INCIDENT: Fatally injured when on firing a fuse, after boring into the debris within the hole went to the ladders to ascend to safety for a while a second explosion occurred. and then returned to the hole in the level. The charge exploded as he was over the MINE: No. 3 West Day Dawn Mine hole. DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 August 1888 SEX: Male MINE: Hidden Treasure and Lady Maria Mine ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 May 1888 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst stationed at the SEX: Male bottom of a winze to fill buckets in bailing ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground it out. A safety hook was used, but the INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured by an bucket came loose and fell about 12 feet explosion which had been fired in the striking the deceased on the head. face. The fuse had been lighted, which hung fire, and they had gone in with MINE: Grant Mine, Ravenswood fresh primer to re-fire the charge, DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 September 1888 thinking that there had been a miss. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Lord Bryon Mine, Georgetown INCIDENT: Fatally injured after firing two shots and DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 June 1888 one had exploded and the other shot SEX: Male exploded as he approached. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged at the MINE: Grass Tree Gully Mine, Mount Romeo mouth of the lowest level repairing a Tin Mines trolley when a stone falling from the DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 September 1999 surface struck the bucket at the foot of SEX: Male the shaft and glanced off, striking the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground deceased in the head. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst undercutting the face in an alluvial and sluicing claim. A MINE: No. 7 West Day Dawn Mine bank of earth fell unexpectedly, crushing DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 June 1888 him. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Sluicing Claim, Mount Romeo Tin INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst riding up the Mines underlie shaft on the edge of the bucket DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 November 1888 with his feet inside. In passing through SEX: Male one of the flats, the deceased was ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground caught by the timber and dragged out of INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst undercutting the the bucket. face and was caught by a fall of the overhanging bank.
MINE: No. 2 Shaft, 8 West Queen Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 November 1888 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst cleaning out a missed shot when an explosion occurred.
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MINE: No. 1 South Black Jack Mine MINE: Wilmont Extended Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 December 1888 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 April 1889 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Engine Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a ladder INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst withdrawing some in a pass. miners from the bottom of the shaft when he was drawn in between the toothed MINE: Sir Garnett No. 3 & No. 4 Mine, wheels of the winding gear. Croydon DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 May 1889 MINE: No. 1 South Stockholm Mine SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 December 1888 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of earth when ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground working off a shot. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was at the bottom of a shaft and his candle was MINE: Bismarck, Watsonville Mine, extinguished by the dripping water. He Herberton sent the bucket up for a fresh light which DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 May 1889 was also put out. As he climbed into the SEX: Male bucket to reach the surface he was ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground caught by the centres and thrown 40 feet INCIDENT: Fatally injured from an explosion through back down the shaft. using an iron tamping rod.
MINE: Kelly’s Queen Block Mine MINE: Long Tunnel, Cawarral, Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 December 1888 DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 May 1889 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working at the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. bottom of a shaft and had sent away a bucket of rock. On the bucket’s exit out MINE: Perseverance Mine, Eidsvold of the mine, the bucket came loose and DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 June 1889 fell back down the shaft striking the SEX: Male deceased. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock. MINE: Reid’s Creek Co’s Mine, Tenningering DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 February 1889 MINE: Nichol’s Lease, Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 July 1889 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock. MINE: Comet Mine, Palmer Gold Fields DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 February 1889 MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Rockhampton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 July 1889 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of earth. Died ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface on 28 March 1889. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a belt came off whilst he was moving machinery. MINE: Huntingdon Crushing Mill, Croydon DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 March 1889 MINE: Upper Tableland Mine, Cooktown SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 July 1889 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became caught ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground in the belt of pulley wheels. INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of earth.
MINE: No. 6 North Queen Mine, Charters MINE: Speiro No. 1 West Mine, Etheridge Towers Gold Fields DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 April 1889 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 August 1889 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when an INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the rope broke in a engine driver who was letting them down shaft causing a bucket to fall on him. with the brake only (which was faulty) caused the bucket to give way.
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MINE: The Gem, Lower 12 Mile Mine, MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine, Charters Croydon Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 August 1889 DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 February 1890 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down an INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was picking over abandoned shaft. the deads in old and disused workings and there was a fall of rock. MINE: Upper Tableland Mine, Cooktown DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1889 MINE: No. 7 & 8 South Monkland Mine, SEX: Male Gympie ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 March 1890 INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: West Albion, Mt Albion, Herberton INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went down a Gold Fields shaft using a ladder. The shaft contained DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1889 bad air, causing him to suffocate. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Eastern Mine, Gympie INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a ladder. DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 April 1890 Died on 6 October 1889. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Day Dawn PC Mine, Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was taking down DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 November 1889 some rock which had loosened back SEX: Male from the face in a cross-cut and more ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground than was expected came away, seriously INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock. crushing him. He later died on 10 April 1890. MINE: Doran’s Claim, Glastonbury DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 December 1889 MINE: Brilliant PC Mine, Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 May 1890 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became trapped ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground between a revolving pulley and belt. INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they were struck by a trolley which fell down MINE: Day Dawn School Reserve, Charters the shaft whilst they were ascending. Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 January 1890 MINE: No. 6 West Day Dawn Mine, Charters SEX: Male Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 May 1890 INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst they SEX: Male were drilling into the butt of an old hole, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground when some unexpected gelatine INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a man truck dynamite exploded immediately after capsized in the underlie and the commencement of operations. deceased fell 150 feet to the flat below.
MINE: No. 1 South Great Eastern Mine, MINE: Hannam Silver Mine, Herberton Gold Gympie Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 January 1890 DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 June 1890 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock.
MINE: Hope Extended Mine, Etheridge Gold MINE: New Limestone Bluff Mine, Charters Field Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 February 1890 DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 June 1890 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down an underlie shaft.
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MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham No. 2 MINE: Hidden Treasure Mine, Charters Shaft, Charters Towers Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 June 1890 DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 July 1891 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was hit by a prop INCIDENT: Fatally injured when involved in a in the shaft that had decomposed of the blasting accident. footwall. MINE: South New Zealand Junction Mine, MINE: Mount Harley Mine, Cooktown Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 August 1890 DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 July 1891 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of earth whilst INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he placed a drill into working the alluvium. a hole from which the charge had missed fire and began drilling. MINE: Mexican PC Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 August 1890 MINE: Mills United Freehold Mine, Charters SEX: Male Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 July 1891 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Mt Leyshon No. 2 Mine, Charters INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock. Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 October 1890 MINE: Blackfellow’s Gully Mine, SEX: Male Rockhampton ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 September 1891 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he slipped whilst SEX: Male descending a crib work stage and fell on ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground broken rocks. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a bank of earth fell upon him. MINE: Old Identity PC Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 November 1890 MINE: Mark Twain No. 1 North Mine, SEX: Male Croydon Gold Field ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 November 1891 INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock which SEX: Male had been sounded and considered safe ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface enough. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft.
MINE: Morinish PC Mine, Rockhampton MINE: Phoenix Mine, Nanango DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 January 1891 DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 November 1891 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he let go of the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a ladder brake too soon, having been deceived by in the shaft. He later died on 30 a mark on the rope shifting. November 1891.
MINE: Sullivan’s Claim, Herberton Gold Field MINE: Durham Mine, Etheridge Gold Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 January 1891 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 December 1891 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a ladder.
MINE: No. 1 North Phoenix Mine, Gympie MINE: Eastward Ho Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 March 1891 DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 February 1892 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a piece of pipe fell INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. down the shaft where he was working. MINE: Stockman Junction Mine, Eidsvold MINE: No. 3 Great Eastern Mine, Gympie Gold Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 June 1891 DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 February 1892 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a bucket for drawing INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. water lifted a pin and dropped it down the shaft.
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MINE: Torlooma Creek Mine, Mary River MINE: Paisley (Muldiva) Mine, Walsh Gold DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 March 1892 Field SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 October 1892 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when deadly gas was ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground discovered in an underlie shaft and a fire INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. bucket was sent down to dispel it. When he became overcome by the gas he fell MINE: No. 2 North East Queen Mine, onto the fire bucket, burning himself. Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 November 1892 MINE: Day Dawn PC Mine, Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 March 1892 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. MINE: Victory Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 November 1892 MINE: No. 4 West Iguana Block Mine, SEX: Male Croydon Gold Field ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 March 1892 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a charge acted on SEX: Male by electricity had failed to explode, but in ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface recharging with a copper tamping bar it INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. exploded.
MINE: Day Dawn PC Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 May 1892 DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 December 1892 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst rolling a log from the dray. MINE: North Star Block Mine, Croydon Gold Field MINE: Heights of Alma Mine, Eidsvold Gold DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 May 1892 Field SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 December 1892 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became MINE: Lady Mary Mine, Palmer Gold Field entangled with machinery. DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 July 1892 SEX: Male MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 January 1893 SEX: Male MINE: Waratah Mine, Croydon Gold Field ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 July 1892 INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock in the SEX: Male shaft in which he was working. He later ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground died on 19 January 1893. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was hit by stone that fell from a shoot whilst loading dray. MINE: Waratah Mine, Croydon Gold Fields DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 January 1893 MINE: Day Dawn PC Mine, Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 August 1892 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground bucket from the surface. INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst they were sinking a shaft and one of the MINE: Douglass Mine, Croydon Gold Fields charges from the preceding shift had not DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 March 1893 gone off, but while the tamping was SEX: Male being cleared, it exploded. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured from an MINE: Paisley (Muldiva) Mine, Walsh Gold explosion from a charge which mis-fired. Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 September 1892 MINE: Mayday No.1 Extended Mine, Croydon SEX: Male Gold Field ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 April 1893 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a prop fell on him SEX: Male which had been insecurely fixed. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock.
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MINE: Brilliant Extended Block Mine, MINE: Cambria Flat Mine, Boolbunda Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 January 1894 DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 April 1893 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a shaft easing INCIDENT: Fatally injured when struck with a piece collapsed and fell on him. of rock that fell out of the shaft when sinking. MINE: A Claim, New Captain Reef, Charters Towers MINE: Bowen Mine, Normanby DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 January 1894 DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 June 1893 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth in an INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the side of the shaft open-cutting 7 feet deep. fell in. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Rockhampton MINE: Independence Extended Mine, DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 January 1894 Etheridge Gold Field SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 June 1893 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from the fall of a hanging MINE: McLeod’s Claim, Gladstone wall. DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 February 1894 MINE: Big Reef Mine, Etheridge Gold Field SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 July 1893 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst stoping out quartz ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground near the surface and the hanging wall INCIDENT: Fatally injured from the fall of a hanging gave way. wall. MINE: Phoenix PC Mine, Gympie MINE: New Louisa Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 April 1893 DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 July 1893 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a shot or two had INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a slab fell from the missed on the previous shift and an side of the shaft while he was in the act explosion occurred when he drilled into of repairing the shaft below. it.
MINE: Good Hope PC Mine, Palmer Gold MINE: Nil Desperandum Mine, Etheridge Field Gold Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 September 1893 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 May 1894 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working at the face of a hydraulic sluicing claim when a fall MINE: Brilliant PC Mine, Charters Towers came away from the face. DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 October 1893 SEX: Male MINE: East Mexican Mine, Charters Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 May 1894 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell on the SEX: Male stanchions of a firewood truck. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst in the bottom of the MINE: Alluvial Claim, Normanby Gold Field shaft and two buckets were being DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 December 1893 lowered together, the lower suspended SEX: Male from the upper and the hand hole, to ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface which it was attached, broke at a faulty INCIDENT: Fatally injured after suffering from weld of the iron. sunstroke whilst panning off in an old hole. MINE: Mount Rose and Stockman Mine, Eidsvold MINE: Papuan, Brilliant and Victory Mine, DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 May 1894 Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 December 1893 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock in the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground stope. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock.
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MINE: Star of Hope Mine (Deep Lead, MINE: Dandelion Mine, Rockhampton Pentland), Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 February 1895 DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 July 1894 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went into a shaft INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst being lowered by a containing carbonic acid gas. rope unskilfully spliced and the splice drew and he fell about 60 feet. MINE: No. 7 Golden Gate Mine, Croydon Gold Field MINE: New Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 February 1895 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 October 1894 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of rock. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when he MINE: Mills United Mine, Charters Towers had fired two holes which had been DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 July 1895 bored by pneumatic drills and thought SEX: Male they had exploded simultaneously, but ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground after they had been in about twenty INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down an minutes the other exploded. underlie shaft 250 feet.
MINE: Victory Battery (Monal) Mine, MINE: Golden Chain Mine, Western Creek Gladstone DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 August 1895 DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 November 1894 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of quartz. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a stage. MINE: Brilliant Central Mine, Charters MINE: Papuan, Brilliant and Victory Mine, Towers Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 September 1895 DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 November 1894 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst they INCIDENT: Fatally injured when slabs that had been were sinking and the rope above drew raised against the logging of the shaft from the shoe, allowing the bucket to fall fell. to the bottom.
MINE: New Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters MINE: New Queen Mine, Charters Towers Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 October 1895 DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 December 1894 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst drilling with a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he placed 12 plugs machine and bored into the butt of a hole of gelatine down a hole which had been and an explosion took place. recently fired, causing it to explode. MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine, Charters MINE: Berry Paterson Mine, Rockhampton Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 January 1895 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 October 1895 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a ladder. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the number of shots was miscalculated and they exploded. MINE: Alluvial Claim at Brook’s Camp, Charters Towers MINE: Buck Hill Gully Mine, Ravenswood DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 January 1895 DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 October 1895 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth in an alluvial claim. MINE: North Phoenix No. 1 Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 February 1895 MINE: General Grant Mine, Ravenswood SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 October 1895 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground winze. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became caught between the roller at the junction of vertical and underlie.
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MINE: No. 8 South Lady Mary Mine, Gympie MINE: Brilliant Central Mine, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 December 1895 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 June 1896 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a charge, exploded ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground by one of the other workmen, blew into INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a slab or rock fell some old workings, causing an influx of from the side of the shaft about 30 feet water to fill the shaft. above him.
MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters Charters Towers Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 December 1895 DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 June 1896 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was knocked INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. down the shaft when resting between the skidways for air and fell 310 feet. MINE: South Glanmire and Monkland Mine, Gympie MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 June 1896 DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 January 1896 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell into a pass. MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters Charters Towers Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 August 1896 DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 January 1896 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a flake of stone fell INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. on him.
MINE: Day Dawn Freeholds Mine, Charters MINE: No. 1 North Phoenix Mine, Gympie Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 August 1896 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 March 1896 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was drawing a drill from the hole when a flake of rock MINE: Queen Central Mine, Charters Towers fell and caused the drill to penetrate his DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 September 1896 abdomen. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Hadleigh Castle Mine, Rochford INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a bucket DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 April 1896 when leaving the shots in the bottom of SEX: Male the shaft. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. MINE: Queen Central Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1896 MINE: Brilliant Block Mine, Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 April 1896 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the signal wire had ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground broken and he stood in the bucket in one INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. compartment trying to mend the wire MINE: A Claim, Ravenswood Gold Field when the engine accidentally started. DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 April 1896 SEX: Male MINE: Good Hope Mine, Charters Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 October 1896 INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Brilliant Block Mine, Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the sustaining bar DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 May 1896 gave way with the weight of the rope and SEX: Male bucket and fell down the shaft. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured in a shaft accident through breaking of the knocker line.
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MINE: Moonstone Extended Mine, Charters MINE: Alluvial Claim, Clermont Gold Field Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 May 1897 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 November 1896 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell out of the overcome by foul air whilst descending bucket descending the shaft. the shaft and fell from the rope.
MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, Charters Towers Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 December 1896 DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 June 1897 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Platman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock in the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a face. piece of rock falling from about 121 feet up the shaft. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 July 1897 MINE: Caledonia and New Zealand Mine, SEX: Male Gympie ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 December 1896 INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock from the SEX: Male back of open-cutting. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst being lowered down MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Rockhampton the shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 August 1897 SEX: Male MINE: Mills United Mine, Charters Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 January 1897 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was hit by a SEX: Male falling shute body. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working on a pent MINE: Stockholm PC Mine, Charters Towers house in the shaft, fixing an air pipe for DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 August 1897 ventilation when he walked along a beam SEX: Male and missed his footing and fell 110 feet. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst climbing up the MINE: Brilliant Block Mine, Charters Towers underlie shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 January 1897 SEX: Male MINE: Fossicker’s Claim, Ravenswood ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 October 1897 INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock whilst SEX: Male drilling in the face. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the gorge’s sides, in MINE: Phoenix Reserve Mine, Gympie which he was washing dirt in the running DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 January 1897 water, and fell in. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Marshall’s Queen Mine, Charters INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went down a Towers shaft and fell 400 feet into water. DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 November 1897 SEX: Male MINE: Brilliant Deep Levels Mine, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a piece of stone fell DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 March 1897 from a descending bucket of packing SEX: Male stuff and fell on him. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell with a stage MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters into 70 feet of water. Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 December 1897 MINE: Queensland Mine, Etheridge Gold SEX: Male Field ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 March 1897 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working on SEX: Male a rock drill and on unscrewing it, the rock ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground fell. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof.
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MINE: Dead Horse Lead Mine, Clermont MINE: Columbia and Smithfield Mine, DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 January 1898 Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 June 1898 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the windlass barrel ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground became displaced and fell down the INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. shaft. MINE: Brilliant and St George Mine, Charters MINE: Big Reef Mill Mine, Casteltown Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 January 1898 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 June 1898 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the hoisting tackle INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a shot had been broke causing the fall of a cam-shaft and fired and a mass of loosened mullock fell wheel. on him whilst gathering the quartz.
MINE: Alliance United Mine, Morinish MINE: No. 1 East Sunbeam Mine, Ukulunda DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 February 1898 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 June 1898 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Engine Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became caught between the belt and pulley of a Root’s MINE: Phoebe Mine, Charters Towers blower. DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 July 1898 SEX: Male MINE: Band of Hope Mine, Charters Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 March 1898 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst preparing a fuse SEX: Male and was closing the detonator with his ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground teeth when it exploded. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst descending a pass in course of construction and a piece of MINE: Abandoned Shaft, Clermont stone fell and crushed him against a DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 August 1898 prop. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Brilliant Deep Levels Mine, Charters INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went into an old Towers shaft about 5 feet deep to work and the DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 May 1898 earth fell in from the side. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Banner of Freedom 2 and 3 South INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst charging a hole and Mine, Croydon Gold Field he endeavoured to drive the charge DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 September 1898 home with a copper rammer when it SEX: Male exploded. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was drawing a MINE: Band of Hope Mine, Charters Towers missed shot. DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 May 1898 SEX: Male MINE: Homeward Bound Mine, Gympie ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 September 1898 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when after passing stopes SEX: Male after shots had been lighted, one ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – Pillar Extraction exploded and the dislodged stone fell on INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a link in a small him. chain which was used in lowering him down the shaft broke at a faulty weld and MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, he fell about 20 feet. Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 June 1898 MINE: Moonstone No. 1 South Mine, SEX: Male Croydon Gold Field ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 September 1898 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst putting quartz into a SEX: Male pass when more quartz fell causing him ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground to step backwards into the pass and he INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock from a fell 80 feet. hanging wall.
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MINE: Helena Mine, Cawarral MINE: Deceitful Susan Mine, Etheridge Gold DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 September 1898 Field SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 February 1899 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he drank from the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface cyanide tank accidentally thinking it was INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. water. MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, MINE: Phoebe Mine, Charters Towers Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 October 1898 DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 March 1899 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a charge of blasting INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he rode upon a material exploded in the stopes as he truck and jumped off at a plat and the was going through. truck caught him.
MINE: No. 2 South Great Eastern Mine, MINE: City of Dunedin Mine, Etheridge Gold Gympie Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 November 1898 DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 April 1899 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft.
MINE: Brilliant and St George Mine, Charters MINE: North Oriental and Glanmire Mine, Towers Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 December 1898 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 April 1899 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a shackle fell down water bucket that had become detached the shaft striking him on the head and and fell down the winze. back.
MINE: Kelly’s Queen Block Mine, Charters MINE: Clam at Mount Romeo, Cooktown Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 April 1899 DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 January 1899 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Tin Fossicker ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst undermining near a down loose ground, when a mass fell tree in search of tin when the tree fell on striking the bar from his hand and him, causing internal injuries. causing him to fall head foremost onto loose stone. MINE: Lady Norman Mine, Eungella DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 June 1899 MINE: Lady Carrington Mine, Charters SEX: Male Towers Gold Field ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 February 1899 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the anchorage of SEX: Male the ladder that he was on broke away. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was overcome MINE: Moonstone Consols Mine, Charters by the fumes from dynamite as he was Towers going up the shaft. He went up the DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 June 1899 underlie holding to the truck and on SEX: Male reaching the vertical, let go and fell 204 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground feet into the water. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock.
MINE: Ophir Block Mine, Croydon MINE: General Grant Mine, Thornborough DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 February 1899 DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 June 1899 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when one of the lining INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working out a shot boards of the shaft fell 120 feet, striking when a fall of rock occurred. him on the head.
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MINE: Kelly’s Queen Block Mine, Charters MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, Towers Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 July 1899 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 February 1900 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst standing on the stull INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fired gelignite working off the shots, when a mass fell some distance back from the face and a and knocked the bar from his hand fall occurred at the face when he went in. causing him to fall head foremost on the stones below. MINE: Mountain Maid United No. 1 Shaft, Croydon MINE: No. 1 South Peter and Paul Claim, DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 February 1900 Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1899 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell off the ladder ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground going down the shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when handing a small bucket into the shaft under the windlass MINE: Sunset Consols Mine, Croydon and fell in. The water was about 30 feet DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 March 1900 down, but he struck the bucket. He later SEX: Male died on 7 October 1899. OCCUPATION: Engine Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he lost control of his Charters Towers engine and a bucket struck him on his DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 October 1899 head. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Ravine’s Hydraulic Claim, Tinaroo INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock in wide (Russell Gold Field) stopes that had been standing unworked DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 March 1900 for some weeks. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Perseverance Mine, Crocodile INCIDENT: Fatally injured after being buried when DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 October 1899 the rocky side of a tail race fell in. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: No. 1 South Oriental and Glanmire INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was fitting an old Mine, Gympie shaft and there was a fall of ground. DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 March 1900 SEX: Male MINE: Wild Cat Lead Mine, Clermont ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 November 1899 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a portion of bow of SEX: Male bucket broke off and fell down the shaft ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground striking him on the head. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the rope in the shaft whilst being hoisted. MINE: Gough’s Sand Claim, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 April 1900 MINE: Croydon Consols Mine, Croydon SEX: Female DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 December 1899 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when her clothing became ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground caught on a revolving shaft. INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when the rope broke as they were being lowered MINE: Croydon Consols, Croydon to the work area and they fell 264 feet. DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 May 1900 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Rockhampton ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 January 1900 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when on reaching the SEX: Male surface he fell down the air compartment ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface of the shaft when in the act of landing. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the truck he was in derailed and threw him off a bridge. MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Mount Chalmers Mine, Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 June 1900 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 January 1900 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst riding up the shaft INCIDENT: Fatally injured when heavy rains on the skip and on having to change his loosened the ground at the top of the position on reaching the vertical, fell off shaft he was working in causing it to fall. and was crushed.
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MINE: Retrieve Mine, Rockhampton MINE: Kelly’s Queen Block Mine, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 July 1900 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 February 1901 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured after firing a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground charge of gelignite and went down too INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went under some soon. They became overcome by the ground where a shot had been fired and poisonous fumes. a fall occurred.
MINE: Prospecting Claim, Rockhampton MINE: Girofla Mine, Chillagoe DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 August 1900 DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 February 1901 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when using an iron INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst tamping bar instead of a wooden one lowering a pump in the shaft and the after blasting. beam from which it was suspended was not made fast causing the tackling to MINE: Brilliant Block Mine, Charters Towers collapse and the whole plant fell to the DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 August 1900 bottom. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Scottish Gympie No. 2 Shaft, Gympie INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went down the DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 February 1901 shaft and fell from the skip. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Victory Cyanide Works, Charters INCIDENT: Fatally injured when coming up on the Towers bucket from shot firing and he fell out. DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 August 1900 SEX: Male MINE: Scottish Gympie No. 1 Shaft, Gympie ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 March 1901 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught by SEX: Male the belting after starting a centrifugal ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground pump. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went back to a missed shot too soon. MINE: Power’s Gold Extracting Works, Charters Towers MINE: Rockhampton Prospector’s Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 September 1900 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 March 1901 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught by INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the bearers of one of the blades of a sand conveyor. staging in the shaft gave way and he fell with it. MINE: General Grant Mine, Hodgkinson DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 November 1900 MINE: Mount Davenport Mine, Cape River SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 April 1901 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was being ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground brought up the shaft after finishing his INCIDENT: Fatally injured after sinking a shaft 10 shift and attempted to get off at a level feet and began to drive in alluvium when without stopping the engine, which it fell and suffocated him. caused him to fall back down the shaft. MINE: Kirk River, Three Sisters Mine, MINE: Premier Consolidated Mine, Ravenswood Ravenswood DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 August 1901 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 January 1901 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was engaged in INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst walking the shaft napping and bagging ore when a mass when a piece of stone fell down the hole of stone fell on him. in the fall-back door and struck him. MINE: Mount Usher Mine, Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 August 1901 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he overbalanced and fell down a shaft.
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MINE: Day Dawn Gold Mine, Charters MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 January 1902 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 September 1901 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was sitting at the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell under a rail in bottom of a shaft and bucket was a shaft and fell 30 feet into 8 feet of lowered on him suddenly. water. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Garnet Mine, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 January 1902 DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 September 1901 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by being crushed in the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down an cage whilst ascending the shaft. unprotected open-topped winze. MINE: Vesuvius Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Golden Gate United Mine, Croydon DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 January 1902 DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 October 1901 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was following a clearing the bottom of the shaft after six bucket up the shaft and the chain broke holes had been fired and a portion of causing him to be crushed against the dynamite which had been left in one of timber. the holes exploded.
MINE: Rainbow Mill, Charters Towers MINE: Mount Garnet Mine, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1901 DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 February 1902 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was playing INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst mullocking in the about the works and fell into the ash pit. stopes and they collapsed. The deceased was a young child. MINE: Golden Valley PC Lease, Ravenswood MINE: Forget-Me-Not Mine, Hodgkinson Gold Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 November 1901 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 March 1902 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured after he had lighted his charge and retired to a place of safety, MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Rockhampton but went back too soon and the charge DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 November 1901 exploded. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Day Dawn PC Mine, Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he entered the acid DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 March 1902 chamber before the gas had had time to SEX: Male escape. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock whilst MINE: No. 2 South Great Eastern Mine, drilling. Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 November 1901 MINE: No. 3 and 4 South Golden Gate Mine, SEX: Male Croydon ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 April 1902 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he had been sent SEX: Male back from the face to make room for a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground prop, and on commencing to bore a hole INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. for a shot, a large quantity of reef formation feel from about 20 feet above MINE: Columbia Mine, Charters Towers him. DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 May 1902 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Garnet Mine, Herberton ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 December 1901 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst drilling in the shaft SEX: Male and a mass of rock fell from about 10 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface feet above. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from blasting operations.
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MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine, Charters MINE: Victoria Gold Mining Association, Towers Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 May 1902 DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 January 1903 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working underneath INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst putting in stulls and a bucket which was ascending the shaft a mass of rock fell. when the rope holding the bucket broke. MINE: Cecil (Hodgkinson) Mine, Herberton MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, Gold Field Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 February 1903 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 June 1902 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working off the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell out of the effect of a shot when a heavy fall skip as it was ascending the shaft. occurred.
MINE: Mount Garnet Mine, Herberton Gold MINE: Moochoopa Mine, Herberton Gold Field Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 June 1902 DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 March 1903 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock whilst INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was too close to mullocking the stope. a charge that exploded in the bottom of the shaft. MINE: Queensland Copper Mines, Mount Perry MINE: Brilliant Deep Levels, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 July 1902 DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 March 1903 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured on ascending and INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft reaching the surface he allowed his head from a bucket that was being hoisted. to project outside the skip and was caught by the brace timber. MINE: New Ravenswood Ltd Mine, Ravenswood MINE: Queen Cross Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 April 1903 DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 September 1902 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when trucks that were INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst boring with a unconnected were pushed over the machine drill and bored into an old hole brow. where there was unexploded gelignite and an explosion occurred. MINE: Clarke’s Brilliant, Worcester and Victory Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Zealandia Mine, Mary River DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 May 1903 DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 November 1902 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was stoping out INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working on a leader a mass of baulked ground which fell. on a hanging wall near the surface and a flake unexpectedly fell away. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 May 1903 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 January 1903 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground stone from a blast in an open-cutting. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from 1876 level into water, but had 150 feet to fall MINE: Day Dawn Freedhold Consolidated before reaching it. Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 May 1903 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by flying stones after a hole containing unexploded gelignite was bored into.
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MINE: Sunbeam Silver Mine, Ukalunda MINE: Genoa Mine, Ravenswood DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 June 1903 DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 November 1903 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured from a fall INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell off a ladder of rock. whilst ascending the shaft.
MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, MINE: No. 1 North Himalaya Mine, Kirk River, Charters Towers Ravenswood DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 June 1903 DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 November 1903 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst riding up the INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst filling up a bucket at underlie in a skip and he put his head up the bottom of a vertical shaft when a and was caught by the timber. piece of stone fell from 18 feet above him. MINE: Hobson Mine (Calcifer), Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 July 1903 MINE: Madison’s School Reserve Tribute, SEX: Male Charters Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 November 1903 INCIDENT: Three men were fatally injured when a SEX: Male stone fell into a hole which was charged ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground above where the men were working. The INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the rock into which operator tried to remove it with an iron the timber was hitched fell. hook and the charge exploded, throwing debris onto the men below. MINE: Owen’s Claim, Clermont Gold Field DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 November 1903 MINE: Vulcan Mine, Herberton Gold Field SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 July 1903 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst charging with a MINE: New Ravenswood Ltd Mine, steel or iron rammer and an explosion Ravenswood took place. DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 December 1903 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 August 1903 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst descending the SEX: Male underlie on a man truck when the front ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground wheels became derailed throwing him INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working near a dyke about 150 feet. when a portion of it fell. MINE: No. 1 North Oriental and Glanmire MINE: Ruby No. 1 South Mine, Charters Mine, Gympie Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 December 1903 DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 August 1903 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he got out of the INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst commencing an cage in one compartment and walked underlie shaft near the surface and the into another and fell down 170 feet to the wall fell in. level below and into the sump.
MINE: Byrne’s Claim, Clermont MINE: Smithfield and Phoenix Golden Pile DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 September 1903 Mine, Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 August 1904 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working alluvial ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ground without securing it and the shaft INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft closed in on him. from 960 feet plat.
MINE: Charter Towers Gold Field MINE: Hector Mine, Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 October 1903 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 January 1904 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst endeavouring to put INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft up a prop to support the rock and it fell. while engaged in cleaning a bucket which had become fast in the underlie.
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MINE: Golden Gate No. 8 South Mine, MINE: Reilly and Honeyset’s Claim (Dee Croydon Rush), Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 June 1904 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 August 1904 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst walking into a mine INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst preparing to put in backwards drawing the truck with an timber after having holed into workings in empty bucket back to the shaft. the river bank and about one ton of drift fell on him. MINE: International PC Mine, Etheridge Gold Field MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 September 1904 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 January 1904 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 60 feet from ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground No. 4 to No. 5 level. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst barring down some formation over lying reef in the face when MINE: Brilliant PC Mine, Charters Towers a loosened piece acted as a key to DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 May 1904 another mass of about half a ton which SEX: Male fell and jammed him against a pillar of ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground solid ground. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst putting the truck in the cage and was struck on the head by MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters the engineer’s lamp that was accidentally Towers knocked down the shaft by miners DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 February 1904 working 100 feet above. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Politician Block Mine, Ravenswood INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst standing talking to DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 August 1904 another miner when a piece of formation SEX: Male fell from the hanging wall. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a MINE: Brilliant Block Mine, Charters Towers falling drill when working at the bottom of DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 June 1904 the shaft. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: New Chum Goldstone Mine, Croydon INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured from a fall DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 November 1904 of rock. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Ravenswood Deep Mines Ltd, INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working in the shaft Ravenswood and he was struck by a piece of ground DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 September 1904 falling from the side. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Queensland Copper Co’s New Moonta INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a massive roof fall. Mine, Tenningering DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 August 1904 MINE: Mount Romeo Tin Mine, Croydon SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 January 1904 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst ascending in the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground bucket and his head struck a cap piece INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst standing too close of opening set at No. 1 plat and he fell to the face when undercutting by 105 feet to the bottom of the shaft. hydraulic power and was hit by a fall of earth. MINE: Golden Gate Consols Mine, Croydon DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 November 1904 MINE: Russell R Claim, Herberton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 April 1904 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground between the truck and the beam. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground whilst hydraulic sluicing. MINE: South Glanmire and Monkland Tribute Mine, Gypmie DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 November 1904 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground.
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MINE: Sunset PC Mine, Croydon ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 February 1904 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell whilst SEX: Male ascending a ladder in a winze. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst sinking an underlie MINE: Normanby Mine (Native Copper shaft from the bottom of a straight shaft Section), Tenningering when ground fell from the top of the DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 November 1905 underlie. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: International PC Mine, Etheridge INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the 100 DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 May 1904 feet level 60 feet to the bottom of SEX: Male Graham’s shaft. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground. MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Currency Lass Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 September 1905 DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 August 1904 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down the No. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he bored into an old 2 underlie shaft. butt containing unexploded gelignite. MINE: Nellie Mine (Redcap), Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 January 1905 MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 May 1904 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when bars were not OCCUPATION: Foreman in charge of crushing floor placed back across the shaft and when ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground he was returning with an empty truck he INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became caught fell down the shaft. between the mill and toothed gearing. MINE: Smith’s Creek Propriety (Nymbool), MINE: Brilliant PC Mine, Charters Towers Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 October 1904 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 July 1905 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Rescue Brigade Member ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when bars were not INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst trying to rescue placed back across the shaft and he fell men when a fire broke out at No. 3 100 feet from No. 2 to No. 3 level. cross-cut from the Brilliant PC shaft. MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, MINE: Brilliant Block Mine, Charters Towers Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 October 1904 DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 November 1905 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Three men were fatally injured from the INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst travelling in a truck effects of carbon monoxide resulting up the underlie shaft when he raised from burning timber. A fire occurred at or himself, causing his head and shoulders near the engine room in NO. 3 cross-cut to come in contact with the bearers at the from the Brilliant PC shaft. The men were No. 8 plat. on their way to work in the three mines which are connected underground. MINE: Golden Gate and Nancy Lee United Mine, Croydon MINE: Mexican Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 May 1905 DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 October 1904 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed INCIDENT: Three men were fatally injured from the between the skip and cross beams of effects of carbon monoxide resulting girders whilst getting into a skip when in from burning timber. A fire occurred at or motion. near the engine room in No. 3 cross-cut from the Brilliant PC shaft. The men were on their way to work in the three mines which are connected underground.
MINE: No. 1 North Columbia and Smithfield Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 April 1905 SEX: Male
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MINE: No. 2 South Great Eastern Mine, MINE: Brilliant PC Mine, Charters Towers Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 August 1905 DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 April 1905 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground. INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst working at No. 3 reef when a heavy fall MINE: Battery Boy’s Claim, Clermont of rock from overhead occurred. DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 May 1905 SEX: Male MINE: No. 2 South Great Eastern Mine, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Gympie INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he returned to the DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 August 1905 bottom of the shaft immediately after SEX: Male firing and became affected by fumes. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a heavy fall of ground. MINE: Ravenswood Deep Mines Ltd, Ravenswood MINE: Scottish No. 1 Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 June 1905 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 December 1905 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst charging a hole and INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a piece of stone fell it exploded. from the ground loosened by a previous shot firing. MINE: Bell’s Lease (Ollera Creek), Ingham DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 July 1905 MINE: McIntrye and Engstrom’s Sapphire SEX: Male Claim, Clermont ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 June 1905 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst tamping a charge SEX: Male with an iron tool which caused an ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface explosion. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst undercutting the overburden of friable soil and boulders in MINE: Ruddygore Mine, Herberton an open-cut when the face fell in. DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 May 1905 SEX: Male MINE: Thiele’s Limestone Quarry, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Tenningering INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst charging a hole and DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 September 1905 was pressing down on the charge with a SEX: Male wooden tamping rod when the charge ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface exploded. INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured by a fall of hanging rock. MINE: New Dawn Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 August 1905 MINE: Queen Central Mine, Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 February 1905 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he drowned from an ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground influx of water from old workings. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in packing mullock in stopes when a mass of rock MINE: United Reefs Mine, Kilkivan fell. DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 February 1906 SEX: Male MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 May 1905 ladder chamber of the shaft. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Fitzroy Copper Gold Mine, INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working down Rockhampton quartz from the hanging wall and was DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 January 1906 struck by an unexpected fall. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Thorpe’s Claim, Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured as he was being raised DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 August 1905 from the sink to the plat above by the SEX: Male windlass and was in the act of landing ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground when he fell off the rope to the shaft INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst trenching near the bottom. surface when a fall took place.
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MINE: Mills’s Day Dawn United Mine, MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, Charters Towers Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 August 1906 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 February 1906 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down the INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst descending the underlie shaft while at the knocker. underlie shaft and had his head jammed between the slip and the plat. MINE: Mills’s Day Dawn United Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Brilliant Block Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 August 1906 DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 March 1906 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down the INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst riding up the underlie shaft while in the act of getting underlie on a man truck behind a full on to the man truck. truck of mullock clamped to a rope. The clamp allowed the full truck to run back, MINE: Golden Gate 18 South Frontage Mine, striking the man truck. Croydon DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 February 1906 MINE: Day Dawn Block and Wyndham Mine, SEX: Male Charters Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 July 1906 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down the SEX: Male shaft and drowned in water below. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of ground. MINE: Bennion’s Lady Mary Mine, Croydon DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 December 1906 MINE: Queen Cross Mine, Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 August 1906 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst moving a length of ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground pump column when the main portion INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of ground. slipped down carrying away the ladder on which he was standing. MINE: Smithfield and Phoenix Golden Pile Mine, Gympie MINE: Zillmanton Mine, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 July 1906 DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 January 1906 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a shot exploded in INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working in the sink the face of a level whilst he was fixing below the 350 feet level when he was the fuses. struck on the forehead by a plank which had been thrown by the platman from a MINE: Fitzroy Copper Gold Mine, cross-cut into the 350 feet plat. Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 July 1906 MINE: Day Dawn Gold Mines, Charters SEX: Male Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 January 1906 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he charged and SEX: Male prepared for firing four holes in the face ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground of a cross cut. He only lit the fuses of INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the braceman two. On returning to light the others, a allowed a trolley to fall down the shaft, third explosion took place. striking the deceased who was in the sink. MINE: Mount Morgan Company’s Limestone Quarry, Marmor MINE: The Three Sisters Mine, Ravenswood DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 October 1906 DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 September 1906 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the winding rope charging a machine hole 10 feet 10 broke and allowed a full bucket to fall to inches deep with rindrock. Three plugs the bottom of the shaft in which he was had been pushed to the bottom when the working. fourth struck. Whilst hitting it with a hardwood tamping rod the charge exploded.
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MINE: Golden Alexandra Mine, Charters MINE: Sapphire Claim (Policeman Creek), Towers Clermont DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 March 1906 DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 February 1907 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Shift Boss ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst making an inspection of the mine and walked up to MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters an explosion. Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 January 1907 MINE: Penzance (Redcap) Mine, Herberton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 August 1906 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of ground in the OCCUPATION: Shift Boss stopes. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he bulled a deep MINE: Mount Morgan Gold Mines Ltd, Mount hole in the open-cut twice within a few Morgan minutes and then started loading it. DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 October 1907 When partly loaded, the charge exploded SEX: Male owing to the heat generated by bulling. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he accidentally fell MINE: Glassford Creek Copper Mine, into the pass whilst shovelling ore. Gladstone DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 June 1906 MINE: Great Fitzroy Copper and Gold Mine, SEX: Male Rockhampton ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 November 1907 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by SEX: Male stones being dislodged from the hillside ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground by timber that was being “sniggering” INCIDENT: Fatally injured through an explosion of there. one of a number of holes he had fired.
MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mills Untied Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 June 1906 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 July 1907 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst assisting to pull INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when a down a set of timber in No. 9 drive with a second explosion occurred after some slab to knock another clear of the cap dynamite remained after a mis-fire was piece. The cap came away suddenly. bored into.
MINE: Peak Downs Copper Mine, Clermont MINE: Queenslander Mine (Redcap), DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 December 1906 Herberton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 February 1907 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he attempted to ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground open a connection between 270 feet INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to an explosion. level and some old workings form Mitchell’s Shaft. He was about 500 feet MINE: Mount Morgan Company’s Limestone from the main shaft when he was Quarry, Marmor overcome with carbonic acid. DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 September 1907 SEX: Male MINE: St Patrick Cyanide Works, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst going up a ladder DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 September 1906 way to the top of ore bins and missed his DATE OF BIRTH: 1904 footing and fell 30 feet to the ground. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Day Dawn PC Mine, Charters Towers INCIDENT: Two year old boy fatally injured when he DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 February 1907 fell into a sump vat. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Chillagoe Smelters, Herberton INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst acting as braceman DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 March 1906 and he fell through the opening in the SEX: Male floor of a tramway from brace to mullock ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground tip. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he called to assist at lead skimming and walked into the pot of molten lead.
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MINE: Ortona Copper Mine, Percy River, MINE: Queen Cross Mine, Charters Towers Etheridge DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 March 1908 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 July 1907 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the tap and INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was turning a connections of a sinking hose that was truck with a strong arm when he lost his being landed fell about 280 feet onto his balance and fell off the brace which was head. unfenced. MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie MINE: Kelly’s Queen Block Mine, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 June 1908 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 November 1907 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst ascending the shaft ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground when he got his leg jammed between the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was stuck by a side of the shaft and the cage. runaway truck in a rising drive. MINE: No. 1 South Great Eastern Mine, MINE: Queensland Copper Company Gympie Smelting Works, Tenningering DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 August 1908 DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 December 1907 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became jammed INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was tarring the between the edge of the shaft and the roof of the smelter and fell off. bottom of the cage.
MINE: Chillagoe Smelters, Herberton MINE: Band of Hope Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 February 1907 DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 January 1908 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst at work at the front INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he had knocked a of the smelter shed and the end of a cage away and was putting in the steel rail struck him in the abdomen. bearers on that side when the braceman signalled the driver to pull the other cage MINE: Great Australian Copper Mine, back to the brace, causing the cage to Cloncurry descend on him. DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 July 1907 SEX: Male MINE: Mills Day Dawn United Mine, Charters ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Towers INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst they DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 December 1908 were working in the sink of the straight SEX: Male shaft when they drowned due to an OCCUPATION: Trucker and Platman inrush of water when they broke through ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground into old workings. INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when an empty timber truck was being lowered, MINE: Great Fitzroy Mine, Rockhampton suspended behind the skip by a tail rope. DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 August 1908 It jammed at a curve in the shaft and the SEX: Male descending skip struck it. It then fell ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground away and snapped the tail rope – falling INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst descending a shaft on them. standing on the rim of the bucket, and fell to the bottom of the shaft. MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 December 1908 MINE: Two Mile Mine, Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 April 1908 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when some ground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground overhead was being worked out and a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when working in the portion fell on him. bottom of the shaft when a piece of skid fell on him.
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MINE: Queensland Copper Company’s MINE: Mount Morgan Gold Mine, Mount Amberose Limestone Quarry, Morgan Gladstone DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 June 1908 DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 April 1908 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was trucking ore INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was sitting on a to the ore pocket in 750 feet level and block of limestone projecting 5 feet the opening had just been uncovered beyond the quarry face, boring a hole in when the electric light suddenly went out, it when it broke away flush with the face. and whilst in darkness he fell into the pocket. MINE: Mount Morgan Gold Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Vulcan Tin Mine, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 September 1908 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 June 1908 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Seven men were fatally injured when a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell with a short mass of ore 1100 tons in weight fell ladder 37 feet down a pass from the without any warning from an unseen “flat 1050 feet level. head” which junctioned with the main south dyke in the No. 1 chamber 850 feet MINE: Mount Morgan Gold Mine, Mount level. The ore fell between the face and Morgan the main oreway timber while the second DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 August 1908 cut was being mined. Seven pigstyes SEX: Male were under the ground, which failed to ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground support it or give any warning that it was INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst boring into No. 1 about to fall. chamber when he struck his head against a piece of hardwood used as MINE: Mount Morgan Gold Mine, Mount ‘machine rigging’. Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 November 1908 MINE: Mount Morgan Company’s Reduction SEX: Male Works, Mount Morgan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 September 1908 INCIDENT: Five men were fatally injured when a YEAR OF BIRTH: 1895 mass of ore 12500 tons in weight fell in SEX: Male No. 1 chamber, 750 feet level. The ore ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface came away, giving very little warning INCIDENT: Thirteen year old boy was fatally injured from two dykes. whilst he was playing with some friends close to the ash tips between the West MINE: Stockholm Mine, Charters Towers and Mundie works when by some means DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 June 1908 he got through the fence and rolled into SEX: Male the hot ashes. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground from MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters a hanging wall in the stope. Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 November 1908 MINE: Montezuma Claim, Herberton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 June 1908 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured from electrocution by ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground industrial electricity. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth in an alluvial claim. MINE: Archer’s Himalaya Mine, Ravenswood DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 February 1909 MINE: Trilby Claim, Herberton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 June 1908 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst trimming down the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground sides of a vertical shaft when he lost his INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working – he was footing and fell 60 feet. fossicking in the old shallow workings when several tons of rock fell out of the roof.
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MINE: Mount Molloy Copper Mine, Herberton MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 February 1909 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 March 1909 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he left his engine ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground with steam on and the cage above the INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground from surface and stood leaning over the shaft the hanging wall. when the cage descended and knocked him down 470 feet. MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Golden Gate No. 7 Shaft, Croydon DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 May 1909 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 July 1909 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock from the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. hanging wall in a stope.
MINE: Mount Morgan Gold Mine, Mount MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters Morgan Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 May 1909 DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 September 1909 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst putting steel on a INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground from truck at the 850 feet plat when a 9 x 2 the hanging wall. inch slab dislodged from a barricade by shots fired at 54 floor and fell down the MINE: Lady Jane Mine, Mungana, Herberton shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 February 1909 SEX: Male MINE: Brilliant and St George United Mine, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged in DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 August 1909 timbering the stopes above the 320 feet SEX: Male level when the ground fell. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when an MINE: OK Development Syndicate, eye bolt by which a bucket was Herberton suspended beneath the cage broke, DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 June 1909 loosening timber as it fell. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Ruby PC Mine, Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was lifting into DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 January 1909 place the last cap of a square set when SEX: Male some ground overhead fell away from a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground soapy head and struck him on the back. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst riding on a balance truck in the underlie, when it turned and MINE: Mount Morgan Gold Mine, Mount broke his neck. Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 October 1909 MINE: New Dawn Mine, Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 August 1909 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he walked onto the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground slabs covering a pass when two of them INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working in the fell through. stopes and a quantity of lode matter fell on him from the back of the stopes. MINE: New Victoria and Caledonia Block Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Mount Morgan Gold Mine, Mount DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 February 1909 Morgan SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 April 1909 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst cleaning down a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground vertical rise when he walked out on the INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was barring unsupported end of a plank which tilted down after firing when he tried to bring causing him to fall 80 feet. down some ore that hadn’t fallen, which then consequently fell.
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MINE: Stannary Hill Mine, Herberton MINE: Carrington No. 1 and No. 2 East Mine, DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 September 1909 Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 July 1909 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured after assisting to empty a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground truck of ore and he fell down the pass INCIDENT: Fatally injured when some “rearing up when he went around the back of the pieces” fell out, allowing the stull to run. truck to close the door. MINE: Mount Leyshon Gold Mine, Charters MINE: No. 4 North Phoenix Mine, Gympie Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 March 1909 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 August 1909 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Tributer INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he commenced ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface drilling in a hole partly charged, resulting INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was at work on a in an explosion. fall of ground in the open-cut when a rock rolled onto him. MINE: The Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 August 1909 MINE: Fairplay (Koorborra) Mine, Herberton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 March 1910 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground working out ground and a shot that had INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he rode up the shaft missed fire exploded. in the bucket, and struck his head against a plank at the level half way up MINE: Wolfram Claim, Herberton causing him to fall down the shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 June 1909 SEX: Male MINE: Smith’s Creek Proprietary Mine, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Herberton INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst tamping a fully DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 March 1910 loaded shallow hole when it exploded. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Mount Cuthbert Copper Mine, INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they Cloncurry got on the bucket to ride from No. 4 to DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 May 1909 No. 5 level. Six feet down the bucket SEX: Male lodged slightly on a narrow piece of ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground timber fastened across the shaft. When it INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they slipped off, the slack rope allowed it to were knocked off a bucket whilst fall several feet, throwing both men off. ascending from shots in the sink of a straight shaft. MINE: Murray’s Banner Blocks, Croydon DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 April 1910 MINE: Loudoun Mill, Herberton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 August 1909 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he slipped into a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface well hole. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a rope became accidentally coiled around the main MINE: Teesdale Mine, Etheridge Gold Field driving shaft. While looking at the rope DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 January 1910 he extended his hand to feel it. The rope SEX: Male seized his hand and he was whirled ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground around the shafting. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell off a ladder while repairing the shaft. MINE: Mount Morgan Copper Reduction Works, Mount Morgan MINE: Oriental and Glanmire Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 April 1909 DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 May 1910 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst tipping a slag pot INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working out ground and he fell 67 feet over the edge of the and a large piece of stone fell on him. dump.
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MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 April 1910 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 January 1910 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst laying down slabs INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the clutch of the on 86 floor, west stope, when about 1 winding drum came out when he was cwt of dyke matter fell on him. descending in the cage from the brace to the surface and the cage fell to the MINE: Stockholm Mine, Charters Towers bottom of the shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 June 1910 SEX: Male MINE: Girofla (Mungana) Mine, Herberton ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 May 1910 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by SEX: Male a fall of ground in the stopes. He later ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground died on 17 June 1910. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was helping to split a large piece of ore with a bar when MINE: New Brilliant Freehold Mine, Charters the latter came away and he fell 4.5 feet Towers through an opening he had helped to DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 September 1910 make. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Targinnie Commonwealth Mine, INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground from Gladstone a hanging wall in the stopes. DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 February 1911 SEX: Male MINE: East Oriental and Glanmire Mine, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Gympie INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst at the sump of a DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 October 1910 shaft attending to the filling of the bucket SEX: Male when, as the bucket was ascending the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground shaft, a skid became dislodged and fell, INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they hitting him. bored into a missed fire with a big machine rock drill. MINE: Zillmanton No. 2 Shaft, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 September 1911 MINE: Mount Morgan Copper Reduction SEX: Male Works ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 June 1910 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working in a SEX: Male stope below No. 2 level and went up to ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface No. 2 plat to go to the surface for timber. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was engaged in blasting the overhanging portion of the MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie slag dump and had just placed three DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 April 1911 packets of dynamite in a hole when the SEX: Male charge exploded. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was repairing a MINE: Brilliant Deeps Mine, Charters Towers trucking road and some stone fell on him. DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 February 1910 SEX: Male MINE: Marmor Limestone Workings, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Rockhampton INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst firing a round of five DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 August 1911 holes in a crosscut and they went off SEX: Male unexpectedly. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst standing at the toe MINE: Mount Elliot Mine, Cloncurry of a quarry face, when a mass of ground, DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 January 1910 loosened by rain, fell on him. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Cleopatra Tin Mine, Kangaroo Hills INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was firing a DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 July 1911 round of holes in a rise, and failed to get SEX: Male away before the first explosion. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground in a shallow open-cut.
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MINE: Warrior Pup United Mine, Charters MINE: Chillagoe Smelters, Herberton Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 November 1911 DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 October 1911 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was leaning INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by against the handrail which guards the a fall from the hanging wall near the elevated floor of the HH works. One end bottom of the underlie. The shaft timber of the rail was insecurely fastened, and failed to hold the fall. gave way.
MINE: Native Companion Mine, Cloncurry MINE: Lily Claim, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 July 1911 DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 November 1912 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in sinking INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was descending a prospecting shaft 25 feet deep when a shallow shaft when he stepped on the one side caved in due to the water being end of a plank which tipped up and baled soaking back. precipitated him to 15 feet to the bottom of the shaft. MINE: Flying Pig Mine (Thornborough), Herberton MINE: Silverspur Mine, Silver Spur DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 February 1911 DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 January 1912 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was attempting INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went down to the to clear an old pass from the surface into 300 feet level to effect repairs. Before the tunnel, when he was drawn into the commencing work he put his head over pass by the mullock and smothered. the door protecting the shaft when the cage came down. MINE: Crescent Mine, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 April 1911 MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 December 1912 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was assisting to ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground timber a tunnel. He struck a collared leg INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working out bad to straighten it, when the set of timber ground in his tope when a large piece of collapsed. stone fell on him.
MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Many Peaks Mine, Gladstone DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 February 1911 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 September 1912 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Shift Boss INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was on the 850 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground level close to the man and supply shaft, INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst attending to the when a loaded truck and an empty “working down” of some bad ground timber trolley broke away from a rake of when a fall of ore occurred. trucks which had just been dispatched. He was struck by the timber trolley. MINE: Maloney’s Limestone Quarry, Cloncurry MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 April 1912 DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 July 1911 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Four men were fatally injured whilst INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he attempted to working in the open-cut when a hanging cross a plank laid on top of boilers while wall collapsed. they were being cleaned when he slipped and fell. MINE: Mount Elliot Mine, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 April 1912 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Morgan Reduction Works ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 January 1911 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst sitting down against SEX: Male a bulkhead in upper stope No. 1 level ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface when someone barring down above him INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he observed fumes dislodged some rock which hit him, escaping from the flue from the smelters causing him to fall down the shaft. and went to investigate.
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MINE: Mount Elliot Mine, Cloncurry MINE: New Brilliant Freeholds Mine, DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 May 1912 Charters Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 November 1912 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working in ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground the hanging wall rise stope No. 3 level INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured by an when he was struck by a piece of ore explosion caused by a machine drill which came away from the hanging wall. boring into dynamite.
MINE: Mount Elliot Mine, Cloncurry MINE: MacGregor Mine, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 July 1912 DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 February 1912 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst passing underneath INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he suffocated from ground that was newly fired and a piece fumes of black loose powder – carbon of rock ore fell on him. monoxide gas. A sink hole was fired before crib time and after his break he MINE: No. 1 South Frontage Mine, Croydon descended the winze when he became DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 February 1912 overcome. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Great Fitzroy Mine, Rockhampton INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof in a DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 May 1912 stope after firing. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Havelock Mine, Etheridge Gold Field INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was putting a DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 September 1912 belt on a pulley while it was in motion SEX: Male and he was drawn into and round the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst trimming down after firing in a stope when he was struck by a MINE: Hampden Smelters, Cloncurry fall of rock. DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 November 1912 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Elliot Mine, Cloncurry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 October 1912 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst hauling with an SEX: Male electric motor winch, a truck of ore to the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground bins on an incline, the truck being hauled INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst tightening up a a little too far, it was necessary to lower it machine bar with a strong arm when the back. The brakes were not applied latter slipped and he staggered back allowing the winch to obtain such a some 10 feet and fell down a pass. supped that the centrifugal force generated burst the coupling between MINE: Vulcan Tin Mine, Herberton motor and winch, and a piece of the DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 September 1912 coupling struck him. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Chillagoe Reduction Works, INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst assisting to remove Herberton the last log from the collar of a winze at DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 October 1912 the 750 feet level when he fell to the SEX: Male stope below. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he attempted to oil MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie the cog wheels beneath a Chilian mill in DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 April 1912 motion and was drawn through the SEX: Male gears. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he drilled into the MINE: Papuan Brilliant Victoria Mine butt of an old hole containing gelignite (Moonstone), Charters Towers which exploded. DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 October 1912 SEX: Male MINE: New Brilliant Freeholds Mine, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured by an explosion of gas DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 January 1912 from old workings. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured by premature explosion while firing out a rise from No. 2 level.
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MINE: Mills United Mine, Charters Towers MINE: OK Mine, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 August 1912 DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 June 1912 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by falling from a stage INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went down the whilst building it. old main shaft with an electric light to try and clear some rubbish off the 80 feet MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan plat and succumbed to foul air. DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 February 1912 SEX: Male MINE: Duchess Mine, Cloncurry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 September 1913 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst standing on a truck SEX: Male working the lever of a shoot door when OCCUPATION: Shift Boss he came in contact with the electric ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground trolley (500 volts). INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was in the act of getting into the cage at the 400 feet level MINE: Mount Morgan Reduction Works intending to proceed to the 110 feet DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 October 1912 level, when the cage was suddenly put SEX: Male into action causing him to loose his ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface footing and he fell down the shaft to the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was passing No. bottom level. 4 ladle pit when he slipped in. MINE: Volga Mine (Mount Elliott), Cloncurry MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 February 1913 DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 December 1912 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was assisting in INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was engaged in hauling from a shaft by means of a “barring down” in 62 west stope when a windlass and had just landed a full piece of ore struck the end of the bar bucket when he tripped and fell down the driving the other end into his abdomen. shaft.
MINE: Hampden Smelter, Cloncurry MINE: Normanby Copper Mine, Mount Perry DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 August 1912 DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 January 1913 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by an explosion of slag INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst descending the whilst tipping slag from a ladle, through a native copper mine shaft in a bucket and launder into a granulating tank. It a trolley fell on him from the No. 4 plat. appears that the molten material got “chilled” and a crust formed on the MINE: Many Peaks Mine, Gladstone surface stopping it from running. In giving DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 May 1913 the vessel a further tilt a large body came SEX: Male away into the launder with a rush and the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground play of the water spray on such a INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was shovelling quantity of molten slag caused an ore on 44 floor 1F stope when about 25 explosion. cwts of ore fell from the face, on the floor above, through the timber which was not MINE: Hampden Smelter, Cloncurry slabbed over. DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 September 1912 SEX: Male MINE: Great Fitzroy Mine, Rockhampton ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 November 1913 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst sawing off a portion SEX: Male of sill off an old set of timber to make ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground room for the leg of a new square set, at INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was shovelling the stope above 290 feet level, when a ore to enable sets of timber to be erected prop being temporarily fixed on a sill and when some dyke fell and rolled down the undercap of the old set slipped causing ore heaps. the timber to collapse. MINE: Hampden South Console, Cloncurry MINE: Hampden Smelter, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 January 1913 DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 October 1912 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was timbering INCIDENT: Fatally injured after he was splashed with the 240 feet level when a fall of earth matte in charging No. 1 converter. took place from the roof.
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MINE: Mount Elliot Mine, Cloncurry MINE: Chillagoe Reduction Works, DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 March 1913 Herberton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 April 1913 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst preparing to bar ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface down some loose ground in the stope INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught in over No. 4 level when a huge piece of the cogwheels of the No. 2 crushing rolls rock fell on him from the roof. at the HH plant.
MINE: Great Fitzroy Mine, Rockhampton MINE: Thompson’s Claim, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 August 1913 DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 August 1914 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged in INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a rope broke whilst repairing a mullock filling pass when a he was being lowered by the windlass run of mullock caused him to fall from the and he fell to the bottom of the shaft. point where he was standing - a distance of 42 feet down the pass. MINE: Brilliant Extended Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Mount Elliott Mine, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 march 1914 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 March 1913 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the chains INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst connected to the winding rope to the tank boring with a rock drill in stopes over No. had become twisted. The tank was 4 level and bored into an unexploded lowered to the surface and a piece of charge. timber passed through the bow and across the shaft. The timber gave way MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan and the tank dropped taking him with it to DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 January 1913 the bottom of the shaft when he became SEX: Male entangled in the rope. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured while engaged in lowering MINE: Sunburst No. 1 East Claim Mine, timber by means of a windlass. Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 March 1914 MINE: Mount Morgan Timber Yard, Mount SEX: Male Morgan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 March 1913 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was hoisting a SEX: Male bucket of mullock by windlass in his ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface small prospecting shaft when he fell INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst assisting to clear a down the shaft trying to unload the log from a heap when another log rolled bucket. over him. MINE: Hampden South Consols, Cloncurry MINE: Mount Morgan Workshop, Mount DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 January 1914 Morgan SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 December 1913 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the jockey became ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface suspended in the shaft and when it fell, it INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he took cover landed on him whilst he was travelling on behind a steel screen while releasing an a bucket below at the time. iron ball, by means of a trip hook, to break scrap iron when a piece of broken MINE: Great Fitzroy Mine, Rockhampton iron struck the shield causing it to DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 January 1914 rebound and strike him on the head. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Mount Morgan Copper Reduction INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working in a stope Works off rise 470 feet north when he was DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 March 1913 struck by a fall of ore. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Brilliant Deeps Mine, Charters Towers INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in loading DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 December 1914 and unloading trucks on and from cages SEX: Male working in a lift shaft when the brace ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground gate was open and he pushed an empty INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof from a truck into the shaft and fell in after it. hanging wall at the brow of the pass.
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MINE: Hampden Mine, Cloncurry MINE: Duchess Mine, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 February 1914 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 January 1915 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst stoping off the level INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working an old when a piece of ironstone fell out of the stope and the timber came away causing soft friable ore onto his head. the ground to fall on him.
MINE: Alluvial Claim, Herberton MINE: Herberton Deep Lead Mine, Herberton DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 June 1914 DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 May 1915 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he undermined a INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth. compacted face of gravel which fell upon him. MINE: Mount Morgan Open-cut Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Brilliant Stockholm Mine, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 January 1915 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 October 1914 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured by rock flying from a shot ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface and crashing into the shelter shed in INCIDENT: Fatally injured when changing the water which he was sitting. tank at the surface and putting it on the cage, when he was struck by the cage MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan and crushed against the side of the shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 January 1915 SEX: Male MINE: Many Peaks Mine, Gladstone ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 August 1915 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he lit the fuses of a SEX: Male number of holes in the sink of a winze ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground and was being raised by means of a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a windlass when a premature explosion ladder in the shaft. took place.
MINE: Clansman Mine, Cardross MINE: Mount Morgan Copper Works, Mount DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 April 1915 Morgan SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 June 1915 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst descending a ladder ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface into a shallow shaft when the hemp rose INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was holding the securing it broke, throwing him to the strain of a load on a crab winch when he bottom. was struck on the head by the handle, which slipped off the spindle, causing MINE: Greater Esmond (Pindora) Mine, him to fall backwards. Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 December 1915 MINE: Richmond Battery, Croydon SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 November 1915 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the connection ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface between the spare bucket and the main INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught up in bucket that he was sending up the shaft the driving belt of a Wilfley table. broke and fell back down the shaft onto him. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 April 1915 MINE: New Brilliant Freehold Mine, Charters SEX: Male Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 March 1915 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was assisting to SEX: Male erect some timber and it slipped and ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground struck him on the head, shoulders and INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst tributing and a piece back. of stone fell from between two concealed heads and fractured his skulls. MINE: Marmor Quarry, Rockhampton DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 June 1915 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a block of limestone which rolled down the face from a point 135 feet from where he was working.
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MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Great Fitzroy Copper Works, DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 November 1916 Rockhampton SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 July 1916 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in running ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ore from the Linda Pockets, Main Incline INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in Haulage Shaft when he proceeded to dismantling a portion of the Sinter Plant cross over the shaft when the skips were when he was struck by a falling post that in motion when he was struck by a was used as an “anchor” for a tackle descending skip. rope.
MINE: Kelly’s Claim (Dee River Rush), Mount MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 March 1916 DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1916 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was removing his INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he undercut the tools from the stope when it collapsed. bank of his workings and without inserting sprags or other support, was in MINE: Mount Morgan Copper Works, Mount the act of lifting the wash dirt when the Morgan undercut portion fell on him. DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 October 1916 SEX: Male MINE: Rosebud Mine, Cloncurry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 March 1916 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the slagged content SEX: Male of a converter vessel was being skimmed ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground and an explosion occurred. INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured due to a fall of ground from blasting operations MINE: Queenslander Mine, Etheridge Gold carried out in an open-cut close above Field the stope. DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 January 1917 SEX: Male MINE: Duchess Mine, Cloncurry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 January 1916 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he attempted to SEX: Male cross the underlie shaft at No. 3 level ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground and fell down the shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst firing out in the sink below the 850 feet level and were hauled MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan up to the plat and as he landed on the DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 January 1917 plat he was hit by a sharp rock which had SEX: Male been blown up the shaft from one of the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground shots. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was preparing for the insertion of special sills when MINE: St Mungo Mine, Cloncurry about 4 tons of ore fell from the roof and DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 June 1916 struck him. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Content Block Mine, Croydon INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he accidentally DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 June 1917 struck an unexploded charge with a pick SEX: Male on the resumption of operations after the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground bottom of the shaft had been cleaned up. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground.
MINE: Duchess Mine, Cloncurry MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 October 1916 DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 November 1917 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst stooping to pick up INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they a stage board inside a bulk head which were in the south cage in No. 3 shaft and he was building in the 400 feet level No. 11 level to go to the surface when stope and his foot slipped and he fell to the engine was started without being the bottom, head first, of the shaft. reversed and the men were lowered into the well hole and drowned.
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MINE: Hampden South Consols, Cloncurry MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 July 1917 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 December 1918 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell in between a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he attempted to spur and pinion wheel of an electric travel under some moving ground in a pump at No. 4 plat. portion of a drive under repair when 8 to 9 tons fell. MINE: Mount Morgan Copper Reduction Works MINE: Trekelano Mine, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 February 1917 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 April 1918 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was engaged in INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they barring converter flue accretions when a had just charged some baulked ground lump of top accretion fell, hitting the bar on the 200 feet level with the object of he was holding, causing him to fall from making room for timber and were about the vessel he was standing on onto the to light the fuse when the ground fell, iron plated floor below. burying them.
MINE: Bonnie Dundee Mine, Charters MINE: Cuthbert Mine, Cloncurry Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 November 1918 DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 January 1918 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was shovelling INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst riding to the surface ore between No. 4 and No. 5 passes in at the close of the shift on a tank when the stopes above the 350 feet level when he fell off. a block of ground 27 feet long slipped over the bulks. MINE: Mt Mascotte Mine, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 May 1918 MINE: Mulligan Mine (MacInryre Shaft), SEX: Male Chillagoe ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 February 1918 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 110 feet SEX: Male down the main shaft. OCCUPATION: Manager ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Tyrconnell Gold Mine, Chillagoe INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck on DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 October 1918 the head and shoulders by 1 cwt of stone EX: Male which fell from the brow of the 110 feet ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground plat. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the triangular end of the surface penthouse fell 367 feet to the MINE: Sundown Tin and Copper Mine, sink and struck his head. Stanthorpe DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 March 1918 MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 January 1918 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground commenced drilling in the end of an old INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working out ground hole and it exploded. in a stope in No. 3 shaft when a piece of rock about 3cwt came away from the roof MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan and struck him. DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 July 1918 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 November 1918 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the first of three SEX: Male holes exploded before he was clear ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground during blasting operations. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst assisting to replace a damaged leg in U2 stope, 84 floor, MINE: Mount Morgan Coy’s Works, Mount when a quantity of ground fell from the Morgan face, carried away a portion of the sets DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 January 1918 and caused a set of slabs to strike him SEX: Male onto a heap of broken ore. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he descended the hillside track near the Dwight-Lloyd Sinter Plant and touched the overhead naked trolley wire with a steel bar.
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MINE: Hampden C C Mine, Cloncurry MINE: Mount Morgan Mine Copper Works DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 April 1918 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 April 1920 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Platman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst following up a matte INCIDENT: Fatally injured from head injuries whilst ladle carriage to check it when it ran over working on the 500 feet plat. his foot. He later died on 18 April 1920 from tetanus. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 May 1919 MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 April 1920 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured by the fall of some old ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground timber and a piece of rock whilst INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he collapsed after preparing to put in a lining set. completing his shift.
MINE: State Arsenic Mine, Jibbenbar, Darling MINE: Mount Morgan Mine Transport, Mount Downs Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 July 1920 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 June 1920 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he slipped getting INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was lowering a out of a skip and fell down the shaft from machine down a column and it slipped No. 1 to No. 2. and the exhaust bend struck him on the stomach. He later died on 24 June 1920. MINE: Mount Nolan Tin Mine, Herberton MINE: Mount Morgan Mine Copper Works DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 March 1920 DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 July 1920 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he went down the INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to blood poisoning. Lord Nolan Shaft and fell 170 feet to the bottom of the shaft. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 November 1921 MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 July 1920 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was smothered ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground by a fall of timber whilst working on a INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working in stope. the R1 stope when the stope collapsed. MINE: Chillagoe State Smelters, Chillagoe MINE: Mount Cuthbert Mine, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 September 1921 DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 April 1920 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was cleaning up under a railway wagon when a shunting from some machine holes which had engine caused the wagon to pass over been fired in the north stope when a him. large piece of ground fell on him. MINE: Scottish Gympie Mine, Gympie MINE: Kalkadoon Mine, Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 September 1922 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 May 1920 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when some stone fell on INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst going along No. 1 him from a wall of stopes. East Level when he walked into a mullock pass and fell a distance of 95 MINE: Scottish Gympie Gold Mine, Gympie feet. DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 June 1922 SEX: Male MINE: Orphan Mine, Cloncurry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 November 1920 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when some shots were SEX: Male being fired and the men had not reached ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground a safe place when they exploded. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when an unexploded hole was bored into with a telescope machine.
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MINE: Cobby Mine, Herberton MINE: Sammy Edwards Tin Mine, Stannary DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 July 1922 Hills SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 April 1924 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged in ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground cleaning up the shaft after firing, his pick INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst cleaning out an old came into contact with the charge of the stope in an old abandoned tin mine when miss-hole which exploded. a portion of the hanging wall fell on him.
MINE: New Wallaroo Copper Mine, Murphy’s MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan Creek DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 January 1924 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 September 1922 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was getting into INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he got jammed an excavation under a picking belt at between two boulders on the surface headgear. whilst trying to remove one of them. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Morgan Concentration Plant DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 April 1924 DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 August 1922 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a horse stood on his INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst assisting to restart foot. No. 3 conveyor belt at the breaker station when he stood on the belt on the tail MINE: Mount Morgan Copper Works, Mount drum. On the machinery being started, Morgan he was carried feet first between the belt DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 March 1925 and the jockey pulley. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst filling a sinter from DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 August 1923 the reserve sinter bin through a SEX: Male “chinaman” when about 10 to 12 tons ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground slipped and buried them to their waists. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was boring a pop for sills in 15 stope, 77 floor, when a MINE: Mount Morgan Mine Fire Brigade piece of soft dyke about 1 cwt fell a Station distance of 2 feet. DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 September 1925 MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 November 1923 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst washing himself ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground when he collapsed and struck his head INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst they on the floor when he fell. were repairing a fall in VW2 stope, 87 floor, when a large lump of ore fell on MINE: Welcome Home Mine, Gilberton them. DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 December 1926 SEX: Male MINE: Girofla Mine, Mungana ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 January 1923 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working under SEX: Male baulked ground when it fell on him. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Mount Maguire Mine, Wolfram INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was firing six DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 December 1926 holes in a winze and one of the holes SEX: Male went off prematurely. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst in the act of tamping MINE: Mount Morgan Copper Works, Mount a charge when the charge exploded. Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 September 1923 1927 No fatalities SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Prospecting Shaft, Stanthorpe INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the hook of a bridle DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 June 1928 snapping allowed a ladle which SEX: Male contained 6 tons of molten matte to cant ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface over in the direction of where the INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst sinking a hole in an deceased was standing 14 feet away old tailings dump about 15 feet deep and the matte splashed over his body. when the sides fell in.
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MINE: Mount Isa Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 February 1929 DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 July 1930 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the bucket INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was sinking in unexpectedly returned to the bottom of a the main haulage shaft when the sinking shaft and struck his head. braceman forgot to cover the shaft at the surface whilst tipping a bucket of mullock MINE: Mount Isa Construction Works, Mount which fell down the shaft. Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 July 1929 MINE: Gem Claim, Rubyvale, Anakie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 April 1930 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became crushed ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground between two boilers whilst unloading INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the brow of a drive them. fell on him whilst he was working in the shaft. MINE: Aberdeen Granite Quarry, Brisbane DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 April 1929 MINE: Mount Isa Construction Works, Mount SEX: Male Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 June 1930 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working a hand SEX: Male crane when he was struck by the handle. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was passing a MINE: Mount Coot-tha Quarry, Toowong rope round a girder and his arm came DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 October 1929 into contact with a live wire carrying 440 SEX: Male volts causing him to fall to the floor 33 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface feet below. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working out some loose stone with a pick when he lost his MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa balance and fell from the ledge on which DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 December 1930 he was standing to another bench 20 SEX: Male feet lower. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working up MINE: Aplin Street Quarry, Townsville a rise over No. 3 level using a cluster of DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 September 1929 three electric lights in an iron shade. SEX: Male Owing to a broken earth wire and ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface leakage in a socket, when he took hold INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst breaking blocks of of the shade he received an electric compressed powder with an iron bar shock. when it exploded. MINE: Mount Isa Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 May 1931 DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 February 1930 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst repairing the main INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst preparing to couple haulage shaft when he was knocked a 4 inch pipe in the main haulage shaft down by a descending skip. when the bearers carrying the stage broke and he fell to the bottom of the MINE: Little Beauty Mine, Cloncurry shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 April 1931 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 December 1930 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a piece of ground SEX: Male fell from the hanging wall onto him while ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground he was boring a hole underneath it. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell out of the cage on ascending the shaft to the MINE: Trekelano Mine, Cloncurry surface. DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 May 1931 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a piece of roof stone fell on him in a stope while he was barring down.
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MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Galena Mine, Gladstone DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 May 1931 DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 April 1933 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working in a INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst inspecting an old ladder way adjoining an ore pass when stope when part of the lode fell from the the side of the pass collapsed. footwall.
MINE: Good Luck Gold Mine, Miclere MINE: Mount Isa Mine, Mount Isa Diggings, Clermont DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 February 1933 DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 February 1932 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth in a INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst holing wash when glory hole. part of a flat boulder weighing about 2 tons fell on him. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 May 1933 MINE: Alluvial Diggings, Copperfield, SEX: Male Clermont ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 April 1932 INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth in a SEX: Male glory hole ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working in the MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa bottom of a shallow shaft when a portion DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 July 1933 of a side fell in. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Crazy Cat Prospecting Area, INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground in a Edenlassie Creek, Bowen stope. DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 July 1932 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 October 1933 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst preparing a place in SEX: Male a shaft about 30 feet deep to erect a set ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground of timber when about 2 tons of rock fell INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a grid broke and he on him. fell 18 feet and ore bin in the pass ran down on him. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 July 1932 MINE: Mount Coolon Reduction Plant, Mount SEX: Male Coolan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 August 1933 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the truck in an SEX: Male underground electric train on the outside ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface of which he was riding jumped the rails INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he stepped on an and jammed him against the wall. ore bin to make it run, but being caved in underneath, it fell in and he was MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa smothered. DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 December 1932 SEX: Male MINE: Richmond Road Quarry, Brisbane ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 May 1933 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he touched an SEX: Male electric cable in a level. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried by a MINE: Mount Isa Mill Dam, Mount Isa fall of rock resulting from firing a shot. DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 November 1932 SEX: Male MINE: Big Reef Mine, Forsayth ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 October 1934 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he touched a stay SEX: Male wire. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a MINE: Bowser and Lever’s Quarry, Grovely falling ladder and fell 70 feet down the DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 November 1932 shaft. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst barring down loose stone in the face of the quarry when a large piece hit him on the head.
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MINE: Gregory’s Try Again Mine, Charters MINE: Moggill Quarry, Brisbane Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 November 1934 DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 March 1934 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a stone fell from the INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of ground in a face and struck a truck which overturned shallow trench. on him.
MINE: Stanthorpe MINE: Belgay Mine, Pentland, Charters DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 July 1934 Towers SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 January 1935 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a large piece of ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ground fell from the side of the trench he INCIDENT: Fatally injured by carbon monoxide gas was working in. on descending an idle shaft.
MINE: Long Tom Mine, Mielere MINE: Hawk Mine, Kangaroo Hills DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 October 1934 DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 February 1935 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the roof of a room INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried from collapsed on him. a fall of earth.
MINE: Lord Stanley Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 November 1934 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 April 1935 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth in a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a drive collapsed trench. and buried him.
MINE: Trekelano Mine, Cloncurry MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 June 1934 DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 October 1935 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a premature INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground in a explosion that occurred whilst he was rise. charging a hole. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 July 1935 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 October 1934 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he placed a sheet of INCIDENT: Four men were fatally injured when the galvanized iron to protect himself from bored into a missed hole. the weather when it came into contact with an uncovered switch resulting in an MINE: Hamilton’s Mill, Cracow electric shock. DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 January 1934 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 March 1936 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught in a SEX: Male belt and dashed against the shafting ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground supports. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell out of a skip whilst travelling in the main haulage MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 October 1934 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 June 1936 INCIDENT: Fatally injured through a bar steel he was SEX: Male carrying that came into contact with an ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground overhead cable carrying 440 volts. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 40 feet down Davidson’s Shaft from No. 6 plat to the bottom.
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MINE: Black Jack Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Richmond Road Quarry, Brisbane DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 January 1936 DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 January 1936 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught in a rigging a rock drill and a large fall of premature explosion. ground came away from the hanging wall. MINE: Mackay Harbour Board, Mount Bassett MINE: Pluto’s Gully Mine, Batavia DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 April 1936 DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 February 1936 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a large stone fell INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of earth from and jammed him against another rock. the side of a shallow open-cut. MINE: Mount Coolon Mine, Mount Coolon MINE: Hawkin’s Hill Mine, Georgetown DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 July 1937 DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 April 1936 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of stone from whilst looking for a fallen lamp. the roof of the stope. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Poverty Mine, Georgetown DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 June 1937 DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 June 1936 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst stripping timber out INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground from of a winze and he fell to the bottom. a hanging wall in the shaft sump. MINE: Eungella Mine, Eungella MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 October 1937 DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 January 1936 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell to the bottom INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he walked into a of a shaft. charged fence and was caught in the explosion. MINE: Lady Rose Mine, Ballara DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 August 1937 MINE: Grasstree Mine, Grasstree SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 July 1936 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried by a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground fall of ground in a shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he struck an unexploded charge with a gad after firing MINE: Bismuth Products Mine, Biggenden in the bottom of a winze. DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 October 1937 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 January 1936 INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Mount Coolon Mine, Mount Coolon INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst attending to DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 December 1937 condensate a pump through defect in SEX: Male insulation, making the frame of the motor ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground alive and he was electrocuted. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a falling stone knocked him off a ladder in a shaft. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 October 1936 DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 October 1937 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst taping terminals at INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a passing truck the back of a switch board and he was pushed a piece of timber against his electrocuted. legs.
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MINE: Pratten Battery Mine, Pratten MINE: You Owe Me Mine, Mielere DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 August 1937 DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 September 1938 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his clothing caught INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the on a stud on a revolving intermediate bosun’s chair whilst being lowered down shaft. the shaft.
MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Coolon Mine, Mount Coolon DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 September 1937 DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 July 1938 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working on the mine INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground. pump and he was electrocuted. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 November 1938 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 October 1937 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he came into INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the steam shovel contact with a live wire. boiler burst. MINE: Perseverance Mine, Cloncurry MINE: Sunset No. 2 Mine, Ravenswood DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 February 1938 DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 February 1937 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he bored into an INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught in a unexpected charge with a jack hammer. petrol gas explosion whilst descending a shaft with a naked light. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 October 1938 MINE: Bonnie Doon Central Mine, Charters SEX: Male Towers ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 November 1937 INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when a SEX: Male footwall machine bored into a portion of ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground an unexpected charge. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he returned to fire again one of the holes that he thought he MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa had not properly lit which exploded when DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 May 1938 he reached the face. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Mount Bassett Quarry, Mackay INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 may 1937 between the cage and shaft and fell to SEX: Male the bottom of the shaft. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was hit on the MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa head by a flying stone during blasting DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 October 1938 operations. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Mount Coolon Mine, Mount Coolon INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 40 feet into a DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 July 1938 stope. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 March 1938 pole that fell down the ladderway. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sundry MINE: Homeward Bound Mine, Mielere INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 March 1938 were buried under the chute overflow. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Gulmoller Mine, Proserpine INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a shaft. DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 November 1939 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a piece of ground came away from the greasy head.
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MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Soldier Bird Mine, Miclere DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 November 1939 DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 March 1940 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst boring and a fall of INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working from the rock fell on his head. shaft bottom standing on the staging supported by two hemp ropes when the MINE: P A No. 1285, Little Yabba Creek smaller rope broke allowing him to fall to DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 January 1939 the bottom of the shaft. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: All Nations Mine, Miclere INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was overcome DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 September 1940 whilst lighting fuses in a shaft 30 feet SEX: Male deep and the holes exploded. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he gave an incorrect MINE: Peninsular Hope Mine, Portland signal at the shaft bottom and then went Roads to get out of the sling preparatory to be DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 May 1939 raised to the surface. He did not get clear SEX: Male and was raised 40 feet when he fell back ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground down the shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst lighting charges and an explosion occurred. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 September 1940 MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 December 1939 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst transporting ore on ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface No. 4 Bench when he was jammed INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst carrying 50 electric between a diesel-powered shovel and a delay-action detonators from the makeup stationary full truck. room to the surface detonator magazine when they exploded. MINE: Mackay Harbour Boards Mount Bassett Quarry MINE: Bullfinch Mine, Charters Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 October 1940 DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 January 1939 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst walking over some INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck on broken stone at the foot of the quarry the head by a windlass handle. face prising out some loose stone on the rill when the stone he was standing on MINE: Jnenburra Limestone Quarry, began to move down the rill causing him Cloncurry to fall. DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 August 1939 SEX: Male MINE: Defiance Residue Dump ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 January 1940 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when an empty truck ran SEX: Male down the incline and into the quarry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface striking him. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was gouging some high grade sludge under a high MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa steep bank of tailings when about 60 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 October 1939 tons fell and buried him. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Mount Isa Smelters, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried under DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 May 1940 sinter in a bin at the smelters. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Golden Hope Mine, Gladstonbury INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst painting the walls of DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 March 1940 a new baghouse when he fell off the SEX: Male ladder and down the shaker floor to the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground thimble floor 40 feet below. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working in shallow winze workings below the main tunnel level when a slab of rock fell from between several greasy heads near the back of the level and hit him on the head.
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MINE: Mount Oxide Mine, Cloncurry MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 September 1940 DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 July 1941 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ore. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst excavating and loading lead concentrates at the West MINE: UNA Mine, Herberton Lead Concentrate Dam near the mill DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 February 1940 when a fall of concentrates occurred. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Engine Driver MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 August 1941 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he tripped over a SEX: Male pipe which was about 6 inches above the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground floor and struck his head on the iron ball INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was preparing to about 6 feet from the pipe. fire rings in the No. 5 centre heading north, No. 44 stope when he slipped and MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan fell into the stope. DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 April 1941 SEX: Male MINE: Mellaneur Mine, Ravenswood ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 July 1942 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was removing SEX: Male some stones from in front of the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground caterpillar pads of the steam shovel INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working near the when the bucket swung back and bottom of the lower face when a fall of crushed him. about 15 tons of material occurred.
MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 May 1941 DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 February 1942 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Powder Monkey OCCUPATION: Contractor - Fitter ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injures after lighting some INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he strained his charges on the face which went off stomach whilst assisting to lift a gearbox prematurely. from a motor truck.
MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 October 1941 DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 February 1942 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contractor Truck Driver OCCUPATION: Powder Monkey ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the lorry INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he placed a number he was driving whilst transporting waste of plaster charges on rocks in the open- material from the mine to the dump and cut when he lit two of the charges and the lorry ran over him. one exploded about 10 seconds after it had been lit. MINE: Mackay Harbour Board’s Mount Bassett Quarry MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 May 1941 DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 June 1942 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: Contractor Truck Driver INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface boiler on a steam shovel burst. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he took shelter behind a coal ramp on the surface when MINE: Recovery Tin Mine, Broadwater Creek, some shots were being fired in the open- Cardwell cut and was struck on the head by a DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 January 1941 piece of flying ore. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Mount Chalmers Mine INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst blasting a channel DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 January 1943 through a rocky bar in the bed of the SEX: Male creek to facilitate sluicing operations and ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground was hit in the head with a stone when the INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst explosion went off. engaged in repairing a bulk which had been blown over by the firing of four holes nearby when a fall of ground occurred.
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MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 March 1943 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 October 1944 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: Electrician INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he walked onto the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Smelter Department siding and was run over by a rake of INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged in trucks. repairs and replacement to the electrical equipment of a crane when he was MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa electrocuted. DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 March 1943 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 November 1944 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when an air shovel was SEX: Male bumped into the shaft in which he was ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground working 175 feet below. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the platform of a steam shovel on the No. 5 MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan bench. DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 July 1943 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 September 1945 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged in SEX: Male lifting an old rail track using a Trewella ACCIDENT LOCATION: Smelter jack. As the tracks were being lowered, INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by an the jack jerked up and struck him on the electrically driven charge car. neck. MINE: Surprise Mine, Mount Cannindah MINE: Wolfram Camp Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 October 1945 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 April 1943 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged in INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was starting an bailing operations at the vertical shaft internal combustion engine which had and while handling a bucket at the shaft been installed underground and fell into mouth, the bucket handle broke, causing a winze containing water and drowned. him to loose balance fall down the shaft.
MINE: Just In Time Mine, Count Carbine MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 March 1944 DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 December 1946 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 40 feet into a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was standing on stope. some staging that collapsed.
MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 July 1944 DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 May 1947 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was standing on INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he accidentally the grizzly bars to break the stone when wandered onto the company’s lease the head of the hammer he was using during the night. He passed through the flew off causing him to overbalance and protective guard and fell into the open- fall into the ore pocket 51 feet below. cut.
MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 September 1944 DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 July 1947 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Platman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Timber Yard ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was moving timber falling from a railway truck whilst loaded trucks into the cage at the No. 5 unloading the timber in the timber yard. level, Davidson’s Shaft, when he became jammed between a loaded truck and the side of the cage.
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MINE: Rutile Sands Proprietary, Curumbin MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 October 1947 DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 June 1949 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: Miner INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell a distance of ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground 11 feet from the crossbeams of a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 50 feet into building during the process of erecting an ore pocket on No. 9 level. machinery. MINE: Black Jack Mine, Charters Towers MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1949 DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 October 1947 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Sub-Foreman of Crushing Plant INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface down a section of the hanging wall in 2A INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst investigating the stope when a fall of ground occurred. cause of slipping of a conveyor belt when he placed his right hand past the guard MINE: Orphan Mine, Dobbyn onto the moving drums and his arm was DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 October 1949 drawn in between the belt and the drum SEX: Male drawing him in. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured as he was being lowered MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa down the main shaft, in which dewatering DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 January 1948 operations were proceeding, when he SEX: Male was overcome by carbon dioxide gas, ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground causing him to fall from the bucket and INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he lit several drown. charges in bench holes in a stope and as he was climbing the rise he fell down. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 October 1949 MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 May 1948 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Smelter YEAR OF BIRTH: 18 years old INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was travelling in SEX: Male a bucket to the top of the partly OCCUPATION: Fitter’s Labourer completed chimney stack and when the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground bucket was overwound through the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became caught working platform at the top of the stack, between a slip and the shaft timbering at he attempted to jump onto the platform the 650 feet level. but slipped and fell through the opening to the ground. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 June 1948 MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa YEAR OF BIRTH: 16 years old DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 April 1950 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Bin Boy OCCUPATION: Scraper Operator’s Assistant ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell onto a INCIDENT: Fatally injured during scraping operations conveyor belt and was carried into a when the scraper hoe accidentally fell chute above the fine ore bin. down the ore pass and he stepped on a plank across the pass to find it when he MINE: Wallis Day Dawn Shaft, Charters fell down the pass. Towers DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 January 1949 MINE: Tableland Tin Dredging, Mount Garnet SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 August 1950 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in OCCUPATION: Boilermaker servicing the pumps in a shaft that was ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface found to contain a dangerous INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was assisting in concentration of carbon dioxide. the positioning of a coal hopper section in the power house when the failure of a MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa wire sling caused the hopper section to DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 March 1949 fall onto him. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Smelter INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell through a guard railing 30 feet to the ground below.
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MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 October 1950 DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 February 1953 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Motor Operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst spalling a rock on a INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst driving a ‘mule’ on grizzly, a chip from the rock being No. 9 level when he was crushed spalled pierced his neck. between the ‘mule’ and the ventilation door. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 July 1953 MINE: Klondyke Mine, Cracow SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 December 1950 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Copper Smelter SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the bulldozer that he ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground was driving fell into a concentrate bin on INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was shovelling the patio floor at the Copper Smelter. ore into No. 5 pass on 150 feet level stope when a slab or rock fell from the MINE: Red Hill Mine, Kirrama hanging wall pinning him against the DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1953 footwall. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground from DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 June 1951 a hanging wall of the stope. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Electric Locomotive Operator MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 January 1953 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the SEX: Male locomotive whilst it was in motion. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst removing a stage MINE: Widgee Cyanide Works, Gympie rigged over a mullock tipple when he fell DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 February 1952 60 feet down the pass. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Part Owner MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 January 1954 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst driving a tractor SEX: Male equipped with a hydraulic front end ACCIDENT LOCATION: Lead Smelter loader transporting battery residues to a INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught motor truck which overturned on the between a snub pulley and a conveyor access road. belt whilst attempting to clean the snub pulley with a crowbar. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 February 1952 MINE: Rutile Sands Proprietary, Currumbin SEX: Male Treatment Plant ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 June 1954 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in SEX: Male collecting drill steel from the open-cut ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface face when he was struck on the head by INCIDENT: Fatally injured as a result of the collapse a falling rock. of a stack of bagged concentrates.
MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 December 1952 DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 August 1954 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Machine Miner OCCUPATION: Sampler – No. 2 Mill ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a fill INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged in pass into V72 stope, a distance of 300 the cleaning down of the ore bin when he feet. was buried from a run of ore.
MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 January 1953 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 August 1954 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was barring out INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck on a truck underneath and was electrocuted the head by a falling rock whilst barring when the bar came into contact with the down a “hung up” chute. 440-volt overhead electric locomotive cable.
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MINE: Golden Plateau NL Mine, Cracow MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 December 1954 DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 June 1955 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miners OCCUPATION: Train Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – No. 4 Level INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured from an INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed explosion of a charge of gelignite. between the Mancha mule and leading stationary truck. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 January 1955 MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 July 1956 OCCUPATION: Mule Operator SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Electric Mule Driver INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst shunting a car load ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – No. 10 Level of timber on No. 7 level when a piece of INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst driving a train when timber projecting from the side of the car the train ahead of him began to reverse came into contact with the ventilation and as a result crushed him between the door frame, crushing him against the electric mule and an air shovel. frame of the mule. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 July 1956 DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 April 1955 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – No. 10 Level OCCUPATION: Linesman INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down U67 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface Service Rise whilst removing staging. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst tensioning some conductors when the stay wire on a MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa strainer pole broke causing the pole to DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 August 1956 bend and fall to the ground. He was SEX: Male unable to jump clear due to his safety OCCUPATION: Magazine Keeper belt being attached to the pole. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from an explosion that MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa occurred while he was handling a box of DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 August 1955 No. 6 detonators in the fuse cutting and SEX: Male capping shed. OCCUPATION: Braceman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Davidson’s Shaft MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst travelling with the DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 November 1956 cage from No. 13 to No. 11 level when SEX: Male the cage door came in contact with the OCCUPATION: Machine Miners shaft timbers, was wrenched off, then ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground deflected through the cage projecting INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst they him to the bottom of the shaft. were working in the seram drive when a slab of rock fell from the back of the MINE: Blackall Quarry, Blackall undercut. DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 January 1955 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan OCCUPATION: Contract Miner DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 April 1956 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the wall of a trench OCCUPATION: Mill Operator caved in. ACCIDENT LOCATION: No. 2 Mill INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his arm became MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa caught in the gear wheels of the traction DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 April 1956 drive of No. 2 Thickener Unit. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Brakeman MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 April 1956 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst endeavouring to SEX: Male jump clear of an impending collision and OCCUPATION: Carpenter was crushed between the wall of T56 ACCIDENT LOCATION: No. 1 Mill drive and the rear cable bottom truck INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working on which was derailed. scaffolding and he fell to the floor.
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MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 February 1957 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 December 1958 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contract Painter ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell through the approximately 50 feet to the bottom of fibro roof of the oxygen plant building. N70 winze and drowned.
MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Ashgrove Quarry, Stirling Granite DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 August 1957 Company SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 March 1958 OCCUPATION: Brakeman SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – No. 10 Level ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst lighting the safety INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst attaching a hose to fuse of a “plaster” charge on a rock a compressed air main when a reducing which was obstructing the track and his bush on the main burst. was hit by the debris from the blast. MINE: Rockhampton City Council’s Red Hill MINE: Golden Plateau NL, Cracow Quarry DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 August 1957 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 December 1958 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Braceman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – No. 5 Level INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a chute INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he put his head into containing binding material and was the shaft when he was struck by a truck covered by a fall of dirt. which had fallen down the shaft from a higher level. MINE: Golden Plateau NL Mine, Cracow DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 June 1959 MINE: Old Cooran Shaft, Gympie SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 February 1958 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a premature ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground explosion occurred whilst he was in the INCIDENT: Fatally injured from the fumes of a petrol process of lighting the cut holes of a engine he was using in the shaft for de- charged round. watering purposes. MINE: Mount Poverty Mine, Cooktown MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 June 1958 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 September 1959 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Fitter / Turner INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst holding gelignite ACCIDENT LOCATION: No. 14 Level – Man and Supply Shaft and detonators together in a box when INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by he tripped and fell causing an explosion. a descending cage whilst he was leaning over the guard rail at the No. 14 Level. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 September 1958 MINE: Dingo Tin Mine, Irvinebank SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 November 1959 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ladderway in P74 service winze. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working in a drive when he was struck by a large slab MINE: Mount Morgan Mines, Mount Morgan of rock. DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 November 1958 SEX: Male MINE: North Kedron Brook Sewer, Brisbane ACCIDENT LOCATION: Smelters DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 March 1959 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his arm was drawn SEX: Male between the bottom belt and the idler of ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sewer a conveyor in motion. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst travelling in a cage and was crushed with the skip fouled the MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan shaft timbers. DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 November 1958 SEX: Male MINE: Roma Sewer ACCIDENT LOCATION: Smelters DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 May 1959 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was applying SEX: Male crater compound as a belt dressing to a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Open Trench feed belt when his arm was drawn in by INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was standing the belt and his shoulder caught against near the brow of an open trench when the guard. the side of which collapsed.
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MINE: Lion Creek Sewer, Rockhampton MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 December 1959 DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 May 1961 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sewer OCCUPATION: Bulldozer Driver INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was removing ACCIDENT LOCATION: Lead Smelter timber from an open trench when a fall of INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst driving the bulldozer ground occurred. after dark to clear spillage from beneath a conveyor belt when he was crushed MINE: Kalapa Brick Works between a horizontal girder. DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 May 1959 SEX: Male MINE: Old Marquis Mine, Normanby Gold ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface Field INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he entered a DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 December 1961 grinding pan to lubricate its rollers and SEX: Male the pan was set in motion by the belt ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground drive moving from the loose to the fixed INCIDENT: Three men were fatally injured whilst pulley. trying to de-water an old shaft by means of a petrol driven pump located near the MINE: Gracemere Quarry, Gracemere shaft bottom when they were overcome DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 September 1959 by carbon monoxide. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Quarry MINE: Stafford Sewer Trench, Brisbane INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was knocked DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 February 1961 down the rill of the quarry when he was SEX: Male struck by a granite boulder which he was ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sewer Trench trying to bar down from the face. INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst working in a sewer trench when they MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan were both, on separate occasions, DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 February 1960 straight after the first fall, buried by a fall SEX: Male of earth from the side of the trench. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was installing air MINE: Mount Coot-tha Quarry, Brisbane and water lines close to the edge of the DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 March 1961 No. 3 bench when his wrench slipped SEX: Male causing him to overbalance and fall to OCCUPATION: Powder Monkey the No. 4 bench. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Quarry INCIDENT: Fatally injured, having finished charging MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa his holes, he approached the fire with DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 October 1960 some fuses that had been wetted by a SEX: Male shower earlier when an explosion took OCCUPATION: Contractor place. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was using a MINE: Barron River Hydro Electric Project pinch bar to help position an end tie DATE OF INCIDENT: 1962 during the erection of a 60 ton overhead SEX: Male travelling crane when he overbalanced ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground and fell to the ground. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed against the wall of the eastern MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa distribution tunnel by the mucking DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 October 1960 machine which he was operating. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Brakeman MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – No. 13 Level DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 April 1962 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when explosives lying on SEX: Male the track were run over and exploded by ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground the locomotive he was driving. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed against the end roller of a conveyor belt. MINE: Barron Falls Hydro Electric Project DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 March 1961 MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 June 1962 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he came into ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground contact with a bare joint in a flexible 240- INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a volt lighting cable. ladderway as he descended from the No. 6 to No. 5 level.
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MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 August 1962 DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 June 1964 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Contractor Carpenter INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his head struck the ACCIDENT LOCATION: No. 2 Concentrator bucket of an EIMCO shovel. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the unexpected movement to the north of the load slung MINE: Mitchell from the crane at a time when the DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 May 1962 deceased had put himself in a position SEX: Male between the northern end of the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sewer excavation and the load slung from the INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground. crane.
MINE: Rockhampton MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 July 1962 DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 August 1964 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sewer OCCUPATION: Miner INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a ACCIDENT LOCATION: U54 North Drive – 14 Level piece of timber and falling earth. INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground.
MINE: North Australian Cement Limited, MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa Calcium DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 May 1965 DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 February 1963 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner OCCUPATION: Manager ACCIDENT LOCATION: N74 Rise, No. 11 Orebody Stope, No. 11 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface Level INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in loading INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a rise operations when he was knocked onto at Mount Isa Mines. rocks between the shovel and the wall. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Wendy Copper Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 September 1965 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 August 1963 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner – Rock Bolting Crew ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: 500 Lode, No. 9B Sub-Level, 46/2N INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured from Cross Cut blasting operations. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a rock fall. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 February 1964 MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 November 1965 OCCUPATION: Contractor - Carpenter SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – K57 Shaft ACCIDENT LOCATION: Mica Creek Power Station Coal Dump INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the skip INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a Hough Payloader winder floor to the main cage floor of the overturned and pinned the deceased. K57 shaft. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 February 1966 DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 February 1964 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground OCCUPATION: Miner INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he and the ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground mechanical loader he was operating INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck and were swept down an ore pass by a rush thrown back by a ventilation door in V55 of mud. A pillar between two filled stopes North Drive. The ventilation door was was being extracted by sub-level caving forced onto the deceased by an air blast when there was a violent and from an explosive charge initiated by the unexpected rush of mud into the sub- deceased in a cross-cut about 130 feet level upon which the deceased was away from the ventilation door, which he working. was closing at the time of the incident.
MINE: Little Bit Mine, Dajarra DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 April 1964 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a falling bucket of ore while mucking in the central shaft.
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MINE: North Stradbroke Island, Consolidated MINE: Iron Duke Mining Syndicate, Rutile Limited Cloncurry DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 March 1966 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 July 1966 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contractor – Apprentice Carpenter OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by the INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of earth and rock end of a heavy bed-log which was being from a hanging wall of a trench. placed into position by the use of a mobile crane. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 October 1966 MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 April 1966 OCCUPATION: Boilermaker SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: Electricians INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the roof ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground of a building whilst he was dismantling INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured as a result the building and at the time of the of a severe flash over whilst testing accident was stripping galvanised iron electrical switch-gear. Whilst using a sheeting from the roof. Multi Meter in carrying out preliminary checks for a Primary Injection Test of a MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa circuit breaker and that the leads were DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 November 1966 connected to the current terminals of the SEX: Male meter rather than to the voltage OCCUPATION: Brakeman terminals. On contact of the leads with ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground the bus bar spouts a short circuit was INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed placed across two phases of the bus between the top edge of an empty bars causing local arcing and ionisation Granby truck and the underside of the of the air in the immediate vicinity. timber buffer bar whilst he was riding the truck back across a tipple. MINE: Semigem Limestone Lease, Duchess DATE OF INCIDENT: 1966 MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 December 1966 OCCUPATION: Miner and Loader Operator SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: Loader Operator INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the end-loader he ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground was operating overturned and crushed INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by him. the bucket of his machine whilst he was under the machine using a jack. MINE: Commonwealth Aluminium Corporation, Weipa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 May 1966 DATE OF INCIDENT: 1966 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Crane Driver OCCUPATION: Contractor Rigger – Transfield Qld ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Copper Smelter INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the mobile crane INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working on fitting that he was operating overturned and the rabble arms to the roaster. In order to crushed him. attach these arms it was necessary to rotate the drive shaft to bring the opening MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa for the arm in the shaft opposite the DATE OF INCIDENT: 1966 hearth door through which the arm was SEX: Male to enter. During such a rotation the OCCUPATION: Crane Driver and Rigger deceased was fatally crushed by an arm ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface on a lower floor of the roaster. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the truss of a steel portal frame which he was MINE: Sewerage Trench, Caboolture assisting to erect and which formed part DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 July 1966 of the new pump station in the tailings SEX: Male disposal area. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Trench INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working in an unsupported section of an 8 feet deep trench when one of its walls collapsed and buried him.
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MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 June 1967 DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 July 1968 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Nipper ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – 17 Level ACCIDENT LOCATION: U48 Decline from 9 Level to 10 Level in INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst operating a Wagner Sub Level Cave Section MTPF-10 diesel ore carrier when the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed machine fouled a compressed air main, beneath the front section of a Wagner breaking a coupling and the deceased PT10 personnel carrier. was struck by a broken section of the main. MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 July 1967 MINE: Wonbah Mine, Mount Perry SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 November 1968 OCCUPATION: Timberman SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: 10C Sub Level ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 90 feet INCIDENT: Fatally injured from asphyxiation when from10C sub to 10A sub in Y79 Service the compressor pump began pumping Raise below 9 Level. foul air into the mine shaft.
MINE: Sewer Trench – Southport, Stewarts MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa Earth Moving and Contracting DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 February 1969 Company Pty Ltd SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 October 1967 OCCUPATION: Miner SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – No. 16 Level OCCUPATION: Labourer INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst operating an ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground EIMCO 630 shovel and was crushed INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried between such machine and the wall of a beneath a fall of ground in a sewer crosscut. trench. MINE: Weipa Beneficiation Plant MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 September 1969 DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 January 1968 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Plant Operator OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he lost his footing INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became caught whilst clearing a blockage and fell 25 beneath a fall of rock in the 11 orebody. metres to the ground. He was drilling breast holes with an airleg machine when a section of the MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa stope broke away immediately above DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 October 1969 him. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – No. 13 Level DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 April 1968 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he drilled into a SEX: Male misfire at a face on No. 13 Level which OCCUPATION: Scram Operator caused an explosion. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – 15 Level INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of broken ore in a MINE: Associated Minerals Consolidated hung up control on 15 Level. Limited DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 December 1969 MINE: Referee Mine SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 July 1968 OCCUPATION: Leading Hand Carpenter SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface – Dry Hill, Southport ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst inspecting an INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a underneath portion of the roof and fell disused shaft. some distance onto a concrete floor.
MINE: Mary Kathleen Mine MINE: Sewerage Treatment Plan, Ingham DATE OF INCIDENT: 1968 DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 April 1969 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Geologist ACCIDENT LOCATION: Trench ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working in a trench INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a when a wall caved in. rock dislodged from an outcrop in the range east of the Mary Kathleen.
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MINE: Sewer Manhole, Proserpine MINE: North Stradbroke Island, Titanium & DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 November 1969 Zirconium Industries Pty Ltd SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 July 1970 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sewer Manhole SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down a sewer OCCUPATION: Contractor Employee manhole approximately 4 feet, 6 inches ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface deep. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was electrocuted whilst engaged in moving a steel tower MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa beneath 11000-volt power lines with the DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 January 1970 use of a mobile crane, the jib of which SEX: Male was at its full height. OCCUPATION: Shaft Maintenance Rigger ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – K57 Shaft MINE: Pine Mountain Quarry, Brisbane City INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst assisting in Council changing equipment in the main cage DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 January 1970 counterweight compartment when he SEX: Male was crushed between the auxiliary cage ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface and the concrete wall of the shaft. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the bulldozer he was driving went off the face of a MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa grizzley. DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 July 1969 SEX: Male MINE: Blackfellow Creek Mine, Fossilbrook OCCUPATION: Shift Boss DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 June 1970 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – R11 Shaft SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 1500 feet INCIDENT: Unknown down the pilot rise of R11 Shaft during the course of barring down from a MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa Galloway stage which was struck and DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 January 1971 tilted by a fall of ground. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Rock Bolter MINE: Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 November 1970 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was barring SEX: Male down a roof when a large rock fell and OCCUPATION: Miner pinned him on a muckpile. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when an explosion MINE: Mount Morgan No. 2 Mill, Mount occurred while a development heading Morgan round of over 40 holes was being lighted DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 February 1971 up. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Alhambra Mine, Coolgarra INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was caught in DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 July 1970 the rod mill of the No. 2 mill. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner MINE: North Hope Mine ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 March 1971 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried by a SEX: Male fall of rock. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the front end loader MINE: Comalco Calcination Plant, Weipa that he was operating overturned. DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 October 1970 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Norma Mine, Soldiers Cap OCCUPATION: Plant Operator DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 March 1971 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he received serious ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground burns whilst attempting to clear hot dry INCIDENT: Fatally injured as a result of a blasting dust which cascaded from a hopper and accident when a round of six holes had over him. been fired in a glory hole but only five were counted.
MINE: Downfall Creek Sewer Project, Everton Park DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 September 1971 SEX: Male INCIDENT: Unknown
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MINE: Hilton Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 August 1971 DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 May 1972 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – P49 Shaft OCCUPATION: Contractor Steel Erector – Citra INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst Constructions P/L working in the sink of P49 shaft when ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface they were buried by a fall of ground from INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell below the concrete lining on the west approximately 36 metres whilst side of the shaft. attempting to climb up the flange of a large steel column at the fine ore bin on MINE: Joan Mine, Ballara the No. 4 Concentrator that was under DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 November 1971 construction. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst mucking at the DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 June 1972 bottom of a 30 feet deep shaft when a SEX: Male hanging wall collapsed and buried him. OCCUPATION: Contract Sinker – Cementation – Thiess Joint Venture MINE: Ravenshoe Tin Dredging Ltd, Mount ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – A105 Shaft Garnet INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst ascending from the DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 December 1971 sink to the surface in the South Mary Ann SEX: Male cage. As the cage neared the brace, the OCCUPATION: Electrician deceased’s head protruded through a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface - Dredge triangular gas in the steel bracing at the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was electrocuted back of the cage and became jammed whilst working at the rear of a 415-volt against the underside of a bunton in the switchboard on the dredge. sub-brace area.
MINE: Mt Coot-tha Quarry, Brisbane City MINE: Esperanze Leases Council DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 June 1972 DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 July 1971 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contract Bulldozer Operator – ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface Gunpowder Copper Limited INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a rock fall. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a D6C Caterpillar MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa crawler tractor overturned and rolled onto DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 January 1972 him whilst he was attempting to drive the YEAR OF BIRTH: 17 years old machine along the slope of a steep SEX: Male hillside. OCCUPATION: Work Experience – Trades Assistant ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Mining Lease No. 136, Brigooda INCIDENT: Fatally injured during the summer DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 August 1972 vacation when a switchboard cabinet he SEX: Female was assisting to move tipped over and OCCUPATION: Casual Visitor crushed his head against a concrete ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface wall. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when an overhanging section of the open pit face, MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa approximately 8 feet high, collapsed DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 February 1972 without warning and buried the SEX: Male deceased. OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – F58 Shaft MINE: Mount Isa Mine INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell metres from DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 November 1972 the bottom deck of the sinking stage to SEX: Male the working bench below. OCCUPATION: Contract Boiler Maker – Citra Constructions P/L ACCIDENT LOCATION: No. 4 Concentrator INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 11 metres from a scaffold secured to the eastern wall inside the fine ore bin to the concrete base of the bin.
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MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Brisbane Sewer DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 December 1972 DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 April 1973 SEX: Male YEAR OF BIRTH: 2 years old OCCUPATION: Rock Bolter SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: L59 Incline, 19 Level INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he drowned after he INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was jammed fell down a sewer. between the bucket of an ST4 Scooptram and the rear end of an ST2B MINE: Deception Bay Sewer unit whilst walking up the L59 incline as DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 May 1973 diesel units were getting underway at the YEAR OF BIRTH: 2 years old start of the shift. SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he drowned after he MINE: Sewer, Cloncurry fell down a sewer. DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 May 1972 SEX: Male MINE: Beneficiation Plant, Weipa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sewer DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 February 1974 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell into an open SEX: Male excavation of a sewer under construction ACCIDENT LOCATION: No. 3 Feeder, Crude Ore Tunnel and apparently struck his head against INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell into the cavity the concrete manhole structure erected above No. 3 feeder in the crude ore therein. tunnel and his body was carried along the conveyors, through the crusher and MINE: Mt Coot-tha Quarry, Brisbane City other parts of the plant. Council DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 February 1972 MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 June 1974 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his head and chest ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – 15 Level were crushed between the return INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was operating an conveyor belt and an idler drum whilst ST 2B unit when he lost control of the the conveyor system was in operation. unit and collided with the wall in the X70 Stores Handline Area. Succumbed to his MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa injuries on 3 July 1974. DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 April 1973 SEX: Male MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa OCCUPATION: Contract Steel Erector – Allco Steel DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 August 1975 Erectors SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: No. 4 Concentrator OCCUPATION: Miners INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell 8.7 metres to ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – 17 E Sub-level the feeder floor of the secondary INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when a crushers. large wedge of rock fell on them.
MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 August 1973 DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 March 1976 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Shunter ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – O2S Cut-off ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell through an INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was thrown open section of the O2S cut-off raise. under the wheels of a wagon. The deceased was riding on the buffer of the MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa leading end of a rake of five wagons DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 July 1976 when he was thrown by a derailment. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – X-cut, 15 Level MINE: Tinaroo Alluvial Mining Lease, INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a rock fall. Mareeba DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 November 1973 MINE: Mary Kathleen Mine SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 October 1976 OCCUPATION: Plant Operator SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the Caterpillar 966 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he reversed his Front End Loader he was operating ran Euclid truck over an edge of a waste down an embankment and overturned dump. pinning the deceased beneath.
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MINE: Sewer Site, Southport MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 January 1976 DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 March 1978 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Trench – Mal Bourke Street, Southport OCCUPATION: Development Mucker INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a wall of a trench in ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground which he was working collapsed onto INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed him. between two load-haul-dump units in an underground parking bay. MINE: Awoonga Dam Sewer Site DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 June 1976 MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 September 1978 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a wall of a trench in OCCUPATION: Sampler which he was working collapsed onto ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground him. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a slab of rock fell from the brow of a draw-point. MINE: Mount Morgan Mine, Mount Morgan DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 February 1977 MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 December 1979 OCCUPATION: Diamond Driller SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: LHD Unit Operator INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a jack-up leg on a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – L66 North Drive, 17D drilling rig overbalanced and fell onto Sub him. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst preparing an area for mucking when a fall occurred from MINE: Biggenden Mine the back of the drive where an initial cut DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 June 1977 for a turn-out had recently been fired. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Mill Operator MINE: Mobile Concrete Pumping Plant ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 October 1979 INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was preparing a SEX: Male power cleaner ready to pressure clean a OCCUPATION: Self Employed Operator working area when he received an ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface electric shock through the nozzle of the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he sustained an cleaning machine. electric shock when the metal boom supporting the delivery pipe came into MINE: Mary Kathleen Mine contact with 11 kV overhead wires. DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 October 1977 SEX: Male MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa OCCUPATION: Truck Driver DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 March 1980 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he reversed a 35 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – 15 Level tonne rear dump truck over the tip head INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst driving a Wagner of a waste dump. ST2B forklift when his vehicle entered an orepass and the deceased was thrown MINE: Image Flat Quarry, Nambour out of the vehicle and he fell 158 metres DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 July 1977 onto broken ore in the orepass. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Quarry MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was standing in DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 December 1980 the bucket of a front end loader with the SEX: Male top ring of a vibratory crusher which was OCCUPATION: Maintenance Fitter being lowered to the ground. The earth ACCIDENT LOCATION: Smelter ramp on which the loader sat, collapsed INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst the tuyere and the loader rolled over tipping both protection curtain was being withdrawn the deceased and the ring to the ground. from the converter vessel as part of a The ring landed on top of the deceased routine scheduled maintenance. The and crushed him. tuyere protection curtain was a curved steel plate with a mass of 2.4 tonnes. It MINE: Image Flat Quarry, Nambour broke away from its hinges and fell onto DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 September 1977 the deceased causing him to fall into the SEX: Male pit below the converter. OCCUPATION: Shotfirer ACCIDENT LOCATION: Quarry INCIDENT: Fatally injured when explosives he was preparing for secondary blasting in the quarry exploded.
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MINE: Jimbilly Mine, Irvinebank MINE: Pialba Trench DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 August 1980 DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 September 1972 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Trench ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground in a INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground. sewer trench three metres deep.
MINE: Wyndham Rise Alluvial Tin Plant, MINE: Ferguson Quarry Mount Garnet DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 September 1982 DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 September 1980 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: Mobile Plant Operator INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was run over by ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface his own grader. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a truck carrying tin- bearing gravel overshot the end of the MINE: Farleigh Quarry feed ramp and somersaulted into the DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 November 1983 hopper where the cab was crushed. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Wet Creek Mine, Gurrumbah INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the front end loader DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 September 1980 he was operating left a decline ramp and SEX: Male overturned. OCCUPATION: Mine Owner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Ravenswood Mine INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst trying to remove a DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 April 1984 loose stone from under the bucket of the SEX: Male moving loader. The driver of the loader OCCUPATION: Miner did not see the action of the deceased ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground and dragged the bucket over him. INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was following a water pump being hoisted up the shaft MINE: Geaney’s Lane, Bohlevale when he and the pump fell to the bottom. DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 May 1980 SEX: Male MINE: Blue Rock Quarry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Sewer DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 June 1985 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried SEX: Male beneath earth which collapsed in a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface sewer excavation. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by a truck. MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 December 1981 MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 June 1985 OCCUPATION: Locomotive Driver SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – 15 Level ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface – Lead / Zinc Concentrator INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the loaded ore train INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by he was driving along a drive on 15 Level a pipe when he was knocked from a crashed into a stationary myne / ruk work truck to the ground. platform. MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Sewer Trench, Southport DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 February 1986 DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 March 1981 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried by a INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of ground. sudden rush of saturated fill whilst mucking de-slimed mill tailings. MINE: Sewer Trench Loganholme DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 September 1981 1987 No fatalities SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Deep Mains MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of ground from DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 February 1988 the trench wall. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was run down by DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 January 1982 a Wagner ST5E unit. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Rock Bolter ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of rock whilst drilling a rock bolt hole with a rising feed.
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MINE: Kidston Mine MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 February 1988 DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 July 1990 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: Rigger INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was electrocuted ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground when he placed his fingers in close INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst standing on a proximity to live 6.6 kV wires. ladder which was hurled to the ground.
MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Hilton Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 May 1988 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 October 1990 SEX: Male SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was run over by INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a slab of rock fell a Wagner ST5E LHD unit he had been from the side wall pinning him against operating. the boom of a drill jumbo. The rock bolt holes had been drilled, but the bolts had MINE: Carpentaria Gold Mine not yet been inserted. DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 January 1989 SEX: Male MINE: Greenvale Mine OCCUPATION: Foreman DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 October 1990 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became trapped OCCUPATION: Dump Truck Driver in a millhole at the base of a ore ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface stockpile. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the empty off-road dump truck he was driving skidded MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa across the haul road and collided with DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 March 1989 another truck causing him to be thrown SEX: Male from the cab. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa overwhelmed by a rush of fill whilst DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 January 1991 operating a load-haul dump. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Load Haul-Dump Unit Operator MINE: Cracow Mine ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 April 1989 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he drove his unit SEX: Male through a warning barricade and fell into ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface an open stope. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the loader he was operating left the road and overturned. MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 February 1991 MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 September 1989 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground falling steelwork when a tower collapsed. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed between flying rail of a loco and the wall MINE: Cracow Mine of a cross-cut while a rake of trucks was DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 March 1991 being loaded from a chute. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground MINE: Horn Island Mine INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a hang-up in a DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 November 1989 draw-point collapsed on him. SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed in DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 April 1991 the cab of his 4WD when a CAT haul SEX: Male truck ran over his vehicle. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from burns he sustained MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa form molten lead which spilt from the DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 June 1990 ladle when the hook became detatched. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Shunter MINE: Cracow Mine ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 May 1991 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell and was run SEX: Male over by the first wagon of a cement train. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was drilling blast holes and rock fell onto him.
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MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 May 1991 DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 June 1996 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contractor ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface – Copper Concentrator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell through the INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell through an floor in the copper concentrator. opening at the top of a bin. MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Kynuna Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 October 1996 DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 June 1991 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Loader Operator OCCUPATION: Opal Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the loader he was INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became buried operating fell into a stope. from a fall of rock from the face where he was working. MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 October 1996 MINE: Tick Hill Mine SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 October 1992 OCCUPATION: Miner SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of ground whilst INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became crushed installing rock bolts. between the lip of a loader bucket and an underground development face. MINE: Selwyn Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 November 1996 MINE: West Moreland Mine SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 November 1993 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the OCCUPATION: Exploration (Geologist and Pilot) forklift truck he was operating and it ran ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface over him. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the helicopter they were in for an exploration drilling MINE: Mount Elliot Mine program crashed. DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 December 1996 SEX: Male MINE: Tick Hill Mine OCCUPATION: Miner DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 September 1994 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a OCCUPATION: Shotfirer fall of ground whilst barring down. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa flyrock from blasting that was being DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 June 1997 carried out in a stockpile area. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Loader Operator MINE: Tichum Creek Quarry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 October 1994 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the loader he was SEX: Male operating fell into a stope. OCCUPATION: Truck Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the dump truck he DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 June 1997 was operating fell over the quarry face. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Truck Driver MINE: EPM, Cloncurry ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 November 1994 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became caught SEX: Male between a tracked loader and a semi- OCCUPATION: Exploration trailer whilst his truck was being loaded. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when their MINE: Cannington Mine aircraft conducting low-level geophysical DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 December 1997 surveys crashed. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Boilermaker MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 March 1995 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was touched on SEX: Male the neck by an electrode whilst arc ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground welding in a crib. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became crushed between two ore wagons in an underground workshop.
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MINE: Enterprise Mine, Mount Isa MINE: Century Lead Zinc Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 November 1998 DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 February 2004 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner OCCUPATION: Fitter ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the deck INCIDENT: Fatally injured when trying to remove a of a sinking stage in a shaft. deflated outer rear tyre assembly from the truck when there was a sudden MINE: Phosphate Hill Mine, WMC Fertilizers expulsion of air from the inner wheel. DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 April 1999 This expulsion of air projected the outer SEX: Male assembly 13 metres, striking the OCCUPATION: Boilermaker deceased. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the top MINE: Highway Reward Mine of a sulphuric acid tank that under DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 August 2004 construction. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner MINE: Isa Mine, Mount Isa ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 July 2000 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a SEX: Male rock which fell from open stope into the OCCUPATION: Rigger drawpoint. ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface - Lead Smelter INCIDENT: Fatally injured when struck by a heavy MINE: Mount Windsor Station load which fell from an overhead carne DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 October 2004 when being lifted. SEX: Female OCCUPATION: Visitor 2001 No fatalities ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when she was struck by a MINE: Hadleigh Castle Mine front-end loader. DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 May 2002 SEX: Male MINE: Mount Norma Mine OCCUPATION: Miner DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 November 2004 ACCIDENT LOCATION: Development heading underground SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when struck by a fall of OCCUPATION: Miner rock at the face of the development ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface heading whilst charging the face. INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell over face with his trac drill. MINE: Mount Hay Tourist Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 July 2002 MINE: Bracalba Quarry SEX: Male DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 June 2005 OCCUPATION Visitor SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface OCCUPATION: Child INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a ACCIDENT LOCATION: Caretaker’s residence rock which fell from the face of an INCIDENT: Died in fire in caretaker’s residence. excavation where he was fossicking. MINE: Wongabel Quarry MINE: Highway Reward Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 July 2006 DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 December 2002 SEX: Male SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Plant Operator OCCUPATION: Loader Operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when run over by loader INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became caught in the articulation point, between the cab MINE: Watershed Exploration Project and the front mudguard of an DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 October 2006 Elphinstone 2900 loader. SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Plant Operator MINE: Pajingo Gold Mine ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 March 2003 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when loader toppled on SEX: Male and crushed him. OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck on the head by a compressed air line or fittings from the air line whilst extending the line underground at the mine.
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MINE: Cannington Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 December 2006 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Trainee Diamond Driller ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the main basket detached from the tool carrier and fell to the ground
MINE: Cannington Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 January 2008 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when crushed between a light vehicle and a man basket attached to a loader
MINE: Castle Creek Quarry DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 August 2008 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Maintenance Worker ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when struck by falling hopper door of a mobile crusher when he was preparing to remove the door from the crusher.
MINE: George Fisher DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 May 2009 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Loader Operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when loader he was operating fell into open stope
MINE: Roseneath Quarry DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 July 2009 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Truck Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Worker truck tipped over and crashed when coming down haul road.
MINE: Opal Miner – Winton DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 March 2011 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Opal Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: An opal miner, working alone in old shallow underground workings on a mining claim, was fatally injured while removing mullock used to backfill a shaft. The material flowed and engulfed him.
MINE: Moranbah South Quarry DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 June 2012 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface conveyor INCIDENT: Fatally injured after becoming entangled in a conveyor.
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