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