Two students from a high school in Kwinana “came into contact with a caustic substance” – a chemical able to burn or corrode flesh – during a year 12 work placement.
WA now has tougher laws,but investigation and prosecution rate is lagging far behind the death rate in workplaces subject to severe skills shortage pressures.
Seventeen were entombed,and another later died of his injuries. Now,the explosion that transformed a Queensland community has been recreated online.
The 59-year-old’s death,at Anglo American’s Moranbah North site,is the latest in a string of fatalities and serious safety incidents in the state’s mines after a “safety reset” two years ago.
Instant noodles and tea bags are part of a tangled fight brewing between unions and Rio Tinto about care for workers in COVID-19 isolation.
A fire at a coal mine in Russia’s Siberia has killed at least 14 people and injured more than 40,with dozens of others remaining trapped,authorities said.
A worker died after ground collapsed at Fortescue Metals Group’s Solomon Hub this morning and operations have been suspended.
The underground mine collapse occurred north of Emerald about 12am on Wednesday.
A wide-ranging probe,established after five workers were seriously injured in a blast last year,has found gas drainage systems could not cope at the central Queensland mine.
Wayne Sellars recounted to the Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry the methane gas explosion at Grosvenor Coal Mine last year.
Five men were seriously injured in the May 6 explosion at the Grosvenor mine,with four men still in hospital.