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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


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



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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.



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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