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Year on from tragedy: Charges considered over CQ mine death

The mine contractor was just minutes from the end of his Sunday shift when tragedy struck.

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14th Jan. 2021 5:01 AM

Goondiwindi man Donald Rabbitt was killed at Blackwater's Curragh mine on January 12, 2020.

The two senior managers charged over underground mine death

Prosecutors allege ‘defective’ safety measures led to Brad Duxbury’s death by falling coal.

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18th Dec. 2020 11:12 AM

Brad Duxbury was killed at Carborough Downs mine site on November 25, 2019.

Middlemount mine death case first mention in court

A mine operator and three senior staffers have been charged over the death of David Routledge.

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22nd Sept. 2020 4:09 PM

Mackay man David Routledge died when a wall collapsed while he was operating a digger at the Middlemount open-cut coal mine. Picture Facebook

The senior CQ miners charged over high wall crush death

David Routledge died in June last year while operating a digger at a CQ mine. The case will be mentioned today.

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22nd Sept. 2020 5:09 AM

David Routledge died in June last year in a crush incident at Middlemount mine.

Mine safety system labelled ‘totally inadequate’

‘At the moment there seems to be two systems running with respect to industrial fatalities’

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18th March 2020 6:03 AM

Father Paul McGuire was killed in mine gas trap in 2014. His death is the focus of a coronial inquest in Mackay.

Mine death inquest: ‘Our hearts are broken’

The sister of a fallen CQ mine worker gave an emotional tribute during an inquest into his death.

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09th March 2020 5:03 AM

Daniel Springer, who died in August 2017 at a CQ mine, was affectionately described by his sister as more teeth than face when he smiled.

BMA bans large wear plates after miner’s death

Mine death inquest hears wear plate linked to death at CQ mine of almost ‘unprecedented’ dimensions.

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06th March 2020 9:03 AM

Daniel Springer died in a workplace incident in August 2017 at Goonyella Riverside Mine.

INQUEST: Origin of wear plates linked to CQ mine death

A former BMA worker says particular wear plates were the result of ‘miscommunication’.

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05th March 2020 11:03 AM

Photo of the work platform Independent Mining Services worker Daniel Springer was working on when he was removing extremely large wear plates from an RH340 bucket in August 2017 at Goonyella Riverside Mine.

Excavator bucket linked to mine death not fully examined

The 30-year-old boilermaker died at a CQ mine while cutting a large excavator wear plate into sections.

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03rd March 2020 4:03 PM

Daniel Springer died while working at Goonyella Riverside Mine in August 2017.

CQ mine death equipment a ‘ticking time bomb’

‘I think about it almost everyday and haven’t worked a day since, it shouldn’t have happened.’

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03rd March 2020 12:03 PM

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