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Fatalities in Queensland coal mines1882-2012

Updated June 2012

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Historical mining employment and cumulative fatality data

YEAR PERSONS

EMPLOYED

ANNUAL CUMMULATIVE YEAR PERSONS

EMPLOYED

ANNUAL CUMMULATIVE

1882 Unknown 1 1 1928 2676 7 197

1883 Unknown 1 2 1929 2768 3 200

1884 Unknown 0 2 1930 2768 3 203

1885 Unknown 2 4 1931 2260 0 203

1886 Unknown 2 6 1932 2199 1 204

1887 Unknown 2 8 1933 2448 2 206

1888 Unknown 2 10 1934 2385 1 207

1889 Unknown 4 14 1935 2455 0 207

1890 Unknown 4 18 1936 2432 8 215

1891 Unknown 0 18 1937 2442 2 217

1892 Unknown 4 22 1938 2495 2 219

1893 Unknown 11 33 1939 2615 3 222

1894 Unknown 1 34 1940 2660 3 225

1895 Unknown 1 35 1941 2886 2 227

1896 Unknown 3 38 1942 2838 5 232

1897 Unknown 2 40 1943 2881 2 234

1898 Unknown 0 40 1944 2918 1 235

1899 Unknown 1 41 1945 2968 6 241

1900 Unknown 10 51 1946 3210 7 248

1901 No information 1 52 1947 3337 3 251

1902 1311 1 53 1948 3335 3 254

1903 1823 0 53 1949 3403 0 254

1904 1857 1 54 1950 3495 0 254

1905 1969 1 55 1951 3503 4 258

1906 1827 0 55 1952 3756 3 261

1907 1958 0 55 1953 3625 5 266

1908 2082 3 58 1954 3609 8 274

1909 2049 2 60 1955 3749 0 274

1910 1823 3 63 1956 3606 1 275

1911 2110 4 67 1957 3507 3 278

1912 2019 0 67 1958 3241 2 280

1913 2332 2 69 1960 3218 1 281

1914 2227 3 72 1961 3270 3 284

1915 2518 5 77 1962 2850 3 287

1916 2037 2 79 1963 2701 3 290

1917 2229 4 83 1964 2730 1 291

1918 2261 3 86 1965 2519 3 294

1919 2259 9 95 1966 2362 1 295

1920 2379 2 97 1967 2378 4 299

1921 2637 77 174 1968 2244 2 301


YEAR PERSONS

EMPLOYED

ANNUAL CUMMULATIVE YEAR PERSONS

EMPLOYED

ANNUAL CUMMULATIVE

1922 2443 5 179 1969 2270 3 304

1923 2662 2 181 1970 2604 1 305

1924 2828 1 182 1971 2883 5 310

1925 2826 3 185 1972 2906 24 334

1926 3020 2 187 1973 4299 2 336

1927 2842 3 190 1974 4885 4 340

1975 5575 18 358 1999/00 9171 2 420

1976 6028 2 360 2000/01 8457 1 421

1977 6024 1 361 2001/02 10047 1 422

1978 6493 2 363 2002/03 12694 0 422

1979 6864 1 364 2003/04 15271 0 422

1980 7207 2 371 2004/05 16786 0 422

1981 8388 0 371 2005/06 21400 2 424

1982 8797 3 374 2006/07 20539 1 425

1983 8773 0 374 2007/08 23510 0 425

1984 9751 1 375 2008/09 26611 2 427

1985 9973 2 377 2009/10 26864 0 427

1986 10190 14 391 2010/11 32568 2 429

1987 10369 0 391 2011/12

1988 9355 3 394

1989 9786 1 395

1990 10494 4 399

1991 11106 0 399

1992 11450 2 401

1993 11119 2 403

1994 11251 11 414

1995 11329 0 414

1996 10924 2 416

1997 10870 2 418

1998 8961 0 418



Individual incident data MINE: Tivoli Mine, West Moreton DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 October 1882 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his skull was

fractured due to a fall of roof. MINE: Eclipse Colliery, Chuwar DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 September 1883 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst engaged in

knocking out his props to let down the top coal, a portion of roof up to the hanging face caught him against a prop behind him, fracturing his skull.

1884 No fatalities MINE: Walloon Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 October 1885 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst landing a bucket on

the top of a sinking shaft when he overbalanced and fell down the shaft.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 October 1885 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by fall of coal in his

working place. MINE: Brewer Basin Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 May 1886 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from spinal injuries when

he was caught up in the coil whilst lowering the guide rope down the shaft.

MINE: Queensland Colliery’s Company Mine,

Howard DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 May 1886 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed to

death by a fall of top coal in his working place.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 January 1887 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed to

death by a fall of top coal in his working place.

MINE: Queensland Colliery’s Company Mine,

Howard DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 May 1887 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a spinal injury when

he fell from a suspended scaffold in the shaft.

MINE: Braeside Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 September 1888 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he received a

crushed back due to a fall of stone in his working place.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 October 1888 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a flake of coal fell

from the lower top, catching him on the back of the head.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 April 1889 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was filing his

wagon near the low side of the room, his mate was wedging the top coal down on the upper side, a great deal more coal than anticipated came down, resulting in a blow to the back of his head.

MINE: Torbanlea Colliery, Maryborough DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 July 1889 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was working

night shift and he opened the surface level cage door, not realising that the cage was not there and fell down the shaft.

MINE: Rosehill Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 May 1889 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst employed riding the

trolley and loading and unloading at the bottom of the dip and top, it seems he got between the two wagons on the trolley. He appeared to raise his head too high causing his head to come into contact with the cross timbers and the lower end of the trolley, crushing his head between the full wagon and the cross timber.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 December 1889 SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his neck was broken

when he was exiting a stopped wagon and was hit by a descending runaway full wagon.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 January 1890 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of coal whilst

taking down the tops. MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 September 1890 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when crushed by a fall of

part of the top seam coal whilst filing one of the strips.

MINE: Eclipse Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 October 1890 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Engine Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he disembarked the

engine (leaving it in motion) to go down to the front of the wagon, where he was thrown down and run over.

MINE: Bundamba Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 December 1890 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was thrown out

of a runaway wagon in which his head came into contact with standing coal.

1891 No fatalities MINE: Blair Athol Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 April 1892 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured after returning from a shot

to clean back the coal when a piece of shale fell on him, crushing him.

MINE: Waterstown Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 July 1892 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was engaged in

taking out the lower stratum of coal when a portion of upper coal fell on him causing internal injuries. He later died on 1 August 1892.

MINE: Torbanlea Colliery, Maryborough DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 November 1892 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Shotfirer ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his skull was

fractured due to a fall of roof after exploding a charge of blasting powder for the purpose of bringing down the coal.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 November 1892 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Topman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst tipping coal onto a

railway truck when the pit wagon broke and fell into the truck carrying the topman, causing internal injuries.

MINE: Eclipse Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 February 1893 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miners ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Seven men fatally injured when they

drowned whilst trying to retrieve mine materials when water from heavy rains collapsed the roof.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 September 1893 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Labourer ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from asphyxiation whilst

working underground. MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 October 1893 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they

drowned when the bucket in which they were standing in to be lowered into the shaft’s rope broke sending the bucket plummeting into water at the bottom of the shaft.

MINE: Whitwood Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 November 1893 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he cut through the

dislocation in the shearing causing a piece of coal to fall, crushing his head.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 October 1894 SEX: Male AWARD LEVEL: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof after

holing.


MINE: Dinmore Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 June 1895 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Timberman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured after he fell down a shaft

whilst timbering. MINE: Torbanlea Colliery, Maryborough DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 February 1896 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to an explosion of gas

which occurred whilst erecting doors underground to guide air into the face of working places.

MINE: Blair Athol Colliery, Clermont DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 June 1896 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when on taking a charge

of blasting power from his can for charging a hole while having a lighted pipe in his mouth, from which a spark fell into the can, igniting the powder. He later died from the burns he received on 28 June 1896.

MINE: Waterstown Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 August 1896 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of roof whilst he

was wedging. MINE: New Tivoli Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 July 1897 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he became

entangled between the rope and the drum at the winding.

MINE: Waterstown Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 August 1897 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to an explosion of gas

whilst checking underground workings and his open lamp collected gas.

1898 No fatalities MINE: Whitwood Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 November 1899 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when trying to release the

pressure valve tap on a boiler that was tightly packed, and the strain burst the blow off pipe allowing scalding water to escape.

MINE: Torbanlea Colliery, Maryborough DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 March 1900 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miners ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Five men were fatally injured due to an

explosion of gas whilst stripping a fault. MINE: Waterstown Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 May 1900 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to an explosion of gas

whilst stripping a fault. MINE: Queensland Colliery’s Company Mine,

Howard DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 September 1900 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured after having fallen and had

his head caught between the cage and the surface combings of the shaft.

MINE: Box Flat Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 October 1900 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured after a fall of roof in his

working place. MINE: Walloon Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 November 1900 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured after being crushed by a

fall of roof stone in his working place. MINE: Bogside Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 March 1901 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of band of

stone and coal. He later died from his injuries on 15 July 1901.

MINE: Mafeking Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 September 1901 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a water wagon left

the rails and the draw bar broke, allowing the end of the rope or chain to strike him.

1903 No fatalities MINE: Caledonian (Walloon) Colliery,

Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 January 1904 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of stone in the

face of room.


MINE: Caledonian Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 May 1905 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof when

wedging down some top coal and the roof came away from the cutter.

1906 No fatalities 1907 No fatalities MINE: Blackheath Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 February 1908 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a spark exploded

the contents of an open can of blasting powder in his hands.

MINE: Box Flat Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 April 1908 SEX: Male OCCUATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of roof whilst

working underground. MINE: Rhondda Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 May 1908 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell out of the

cage on the way to the surface. MINE: Fernie Creek (Bogside No. 2) Colliery,

Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 September 1909 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miners ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when a

spark from a lamp fell into a partially open box containing about 5 lb of compressed powder.

MINE: Dinmore Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 May 1910 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he released a beam

that had gotten caught when being hoisted to the brace and it struck his head.

MINE: Parkhead Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 June 1910 SEX: Male AWARD LEVEL: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst holing underground

and some top coal fell on him.

MINE: Parkhead Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 December 1910 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working

underground and some coal from a slip fell on him.

MINE: Burrum No. 5 Colliery, Howard DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 March 1911 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he contracted blood

poisoning when he accidentally ran his pick into his knee when holing.

MINE: Burrum No. 15 Colliery, Howard DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 May 1911 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured underground when a

piece of stone fell on him, inflicting internal injuries.

MINE: Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 June 1911 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a shot which had

been tamped with coal dust fired and exploded a flame which enveloped him.

MINE: Bonnie Dundee New Shaft Colliery,

Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 September 1911 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell down the

shaft a distance of 100 ft. from a staging he was erecting.

1912 No fatalities MINE: Blackheath No. 1 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 May 1913 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst attempting to jump

over a coal cutting machine by placing his foot on the centre plate. While in the act of springing, his head struck the roof and as he fell his leg went between the machine frame and the cutting chain and was instantly cut off. He later died from his injuries on 6 May 1913.

MINE: Abermain Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 September 1913 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he received spinal

injuries when he was ascending a ladder on the winding engine house to screw up a value, when the ladder slipped and fell.


MINE: Abermain Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 February 1914 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst wheeling a wagon

into the level. He failed to detect his brother coming out with a loaded wagon, and the resulting collision caused injuries to his spine.

MINE: Box Flat Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 May 1914 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst filling coal off a jig

from a flat sheet. He got in front of a loaded wagon to guide it on the rails. The chain was not attached and the wagon crushed him against a prop.

MINE: Ipswich City Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 September 1914 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the hauling rope

broke while he was on the dip and he was struck by a runaway wagon.

MINE: Kingsthorpe Acland Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 June 1915 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a hurricane lamp

exploded, inflicting burns. MINE: Burma No. 5 Colliery, Howard DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 March 1915 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when some roof stone

came away from concealed slips, when he was pulling timber under it, and crushed his head.

MINE: Noblevale No. 3 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 July 1915 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the roof of his bord

fell on him from between two slips. MINE: Noblevale No. 1 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 July 1915 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when demonstrating a

new coal cutting machine and he accidentally ignited a small accumulation of gas and received burns.

MINE: Dundee Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 July 1915 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he accidentally

ignited a small quantity of gas in a pothole in the roof.

MINE: Rhondda Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 May 1916 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was driving a

load of timber to the mine when the horse shied, causing him to fall under the wheel causing internal injuries.

MINE: Westvale Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 September 1916 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst cleaning up after a

fall, the resulting cavity being full of gas, another fall drove the gas down onto his open light. He was severely burned by the explosion that followed.

MINE: Newcastle Colliery, Clermont DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 February 1917 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was preparing to

erect the innermost prop which had been shot out in his working place when about 3 cwt. Of coal fell from a slip in the roof and struck him.

MINE: Noblevale No. 3 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 May 1917 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when some stone fell on

him from a slip in the roof and a concealed parting which struck him.

MINE: Tannymorel Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 August 1917 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof from a

slip, part of which was only just visible. MINE: Blackheath Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 September 1917 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when taking down top coal

some roof stone just stripped fell on him. MINE: Eclipse Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 June 1918 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when they

drowned from an inburst of water from old workings.

MINE: Noblevale No. 1 Colliery, Ipswich SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he put his head over

the frame of a tippler and his head was crushed between the frame and revolving tippler.


MINE: Redbank Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 January 1919 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst

building a stopping to seal off a portion of old workings, a quantity of gas became ignited, blowing the stopping over them. They died from extensive burns.

MINE: Newcastle Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 January 1919 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when returning to the face

with a wagon and was struck by a lump of coal.

MINE: Cardiff Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 February 1919 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Three men were fatally injured when they

descended the shaft to make an inspection of the workings, which had been closed for a few days, when the ignited some gas by using a faulty safety lamp. All three were badly burned.

MINE: Mount Mulligan Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 February 1919 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he accidentally

slipped into the rotating picks of a coal cutter.

MINE: Bonnie Dundee Extended Colliery,

Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 September 1919 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst attempting to oil the

ventilating fan on the surface when he got caught in the fan blades. His left arm was almost severed, his head and thorax crushed.

MINE: Blackheath Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 November 1919 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a piece of coal

came away from pit side and striking a prop, knocked it out. The prop fell and fractured his skull.

MINE: Caledonian Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 August 1920 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a quantity of stone

weighing about 15 cwt. came away from a series of slips in the roof, falling on him.

MINE: Blackheath Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 August 1920 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst preparing a charge

of explosives at the face when a quantity of coal came away from a slip, falling onto him and fracturing his skull and neck.

MINE: Aberdare Extended Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 July 1921 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst

engaged in stripping the airshaft an don descending after firing two shots, they started to fill the muck from off the stage. The staging gave way precipitating both men 500 ft to the bottom of the shaft.

MINE: Mount Mulligan Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 September 1921 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Seventy-seven men were fatally injured

in a coal dust explosion. MINE: Tanneymorrel Colliery, Darling Downs DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 February 1922 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a large piece of

stone fell on him from slips in the roof. MINE: Ipswich City Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 April 1922 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from asphyxiation whilst

cutting a rib side to make a place to set a prop under a crown, the rib gave way, liberating a quantity of soft roof coal burying him.

MINE: Caledonian Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 May 1922 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured while

engaged in re-timbering an old level in proximity to old workings, a quantity of gas came into contact with their open lights and ignited, severely burning both men.

MINE: Blair Athol No. 1 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 May 1922 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when pulling down band

from the roof when he overbalanced and fell, striking his head on loose coal on the floor and fracturing his spine.


MINE: New Chum Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 May 1923 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from a

landing stage to the surface, fracturing his skull.

MINE: Balgowan Colliery, Darling Downs DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 October 1923 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when some runaway

railway truck bumped into the truck at the pithead on which he was sitting. He lost his balance and fell between the two trucks.

MINE: Dawson Valley Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 December 1924 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a fall of stone

knocked out some timber, a falling prop fractured his skull.

MINE: Dawson Valley Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 April 1925 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a fall of stone

knocked down a slab and prop. The prop struck the deceased and caused injuries to the ribs and temple. His right hand was nearly severed by stone falling on it.

MINE: Dawson Valley Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 June 1925 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when assisting to raise the

flooring in the power house, it is thought that one end of a piece of hardwood caught between the connecting rods and a spoke of the flywheel of the air compressor. The other end struck him on the head.

MINE: Klondyke Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 July 1925 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when holing coal and

some fell on him from a greasy back causing internal injuries.

MINE: Sugarloaf Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 January 1926 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when rolling a piece of

mullock and it struck a pick which flew upwards and punctured his right temple.

MINE: Balgowan Colliery, Darling Downs DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 October 1926 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when about 2 tons of roof

stone fell on him from concealed slips in the roof.

MINE: Baralaba Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 May 1927 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of roof stone. MINE: Mount Mulligan Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 September 1927 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to internal injuries

whilst adjusting a stop block and he was knocked down in front of a full set of wagons and dragged several yards.

MINE: Rhondda Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 October 1927 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when working a coal face,

a piece of stone fell from the roof onto his head resulting in a fractured skull.

MINE: Box Flat Tunnel Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 March 1928 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst removing a prop

from under top coal and the coal fell on him.

MINE: Redbank Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 April 1928 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Three men were fatally injured after

having entered the mine and an explosion of firedamp took place.

MINE: New Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 April 1928 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst working at the coal

face and a piece of roof stone fell on his head.

MINE: Balmoral Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 April 1928 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to ignition of

inflammable gas.


MINE: Bowen Consolidated Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 November 1928 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he slipped and

struck his head (fracturing his skull) against the wheel of the wagon.

MINE: New Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 August 1929 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured while taking a full wagon

down a cuddy jig, a split link pulled out of the chain, thereby allowing the cuddy to run back and strike him on the leg causing a fracture below the knee. He later died from his injuries on 7 August 1929.

MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 October 1929 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fractured skull from

a fall of stone. MINE: Audley Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 November 1929 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from asphyxiation when

overcome by bad air in a prospecting shaft.

MINE: Hart’s Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 January 1930 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a large fall of stone. MINE: Aberdare Extended Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 6 February 1930 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst holing coal and a

piece of top coal fell and struck him in the head.

MINE: Ardath Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 November 1930 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured while bailing water and an

ignition of petrol (which was floating on top of the water) took place causing burns to his face, arms and legs.

1931 No fatalities

MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 April 1932 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from compound fractures

of the pelvis and femur and a rupture of the bladder when attempting to couple a loaded truck. While moving, the trucks fouled and he was jammed between the buffer of a moving truck and woodwork of a standing truck.

MINE: Bonnie Dundee Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 March 1933 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured while hewing coal on the

lower rib of his working place when he was struck by a fall of stone.

MINE: Aberdare Extended No. 1 Colliery,

Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 May 1933 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst making

preparations to replace some broken timber, and a fall of stone took place.

MINE: Klondyke Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 October 1934 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst making a morning

inspection of the mine when he ignited a quantity of firedamp and received burns to his face, body and arms.

1935 No fatalities MINE: Southern Cross Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 January 1936 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst

taking out the stub of a coal pillar when a fall of roof occurred.

MINE: Dawson Valley Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 March 1936 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when gas ignited in a rise

cut-through and received burns about the head and the body.

MINE: Hart’s Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 May 1936 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Four men were fatally injured from an

explosion of gas.


MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 August 1936 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell backward

from a height of about 7 feet 6 inches while on repair work at the powerhouse. He received a cerebral haemorrhage and a fractured spine.

MINE: Styx No. 3 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 June 1937 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fractured spine he

received by a fall of coal from the rib of the working band.

MINE: Noblevale No. 1 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 September 1937 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was engaged in

erecting brattice cloth in the main return airway when he was overcome by noxious gases.

MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 February 1938 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fractured skull

caused by a fall of coal. MINE: Blackheath No. 4 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 August 1938 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he slipped and fell in

front of a loaded skip, receiving injuries to his head, chest and arms.

MINE: Mount Mulligan Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 February 1939 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Electrician ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he came into

contact with an electric current when switching off the current at the gate end box.

MINE: Caledonian No. 3 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 May 1939 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck on

the head by a piece of stone that fell from face of brushing.

MINE: Aberdare West Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 May 1939 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when be became buried

from a fall of coal.

MINE: Cambria No. 1 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 May 1940 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he took sick whilst

pushing a railway hopper. He died from myocarditis, coronary stenosis.

MINE: Burgowan No. 7 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 May 1940 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when explosives

accidentally went off whilst he was preparing a charge.

MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 July 1940 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from back and internal

haemorrhage when he was pulling down some loose stone in his working bord when a piece of stone fell and knocked over the drum on which he was standing.

MINE: New Aberdare Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 November 1941 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured whilst

making preparations for a roadway across a gob in an old level when a fall of roof stone weighting approximately 30 ton occurred.

MINE: Blackheath No. 2 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 February 1942 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed

between a loaded rake of wagons and a prop.

MINE: Southern Cross No. 6 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 March 1942 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed

between a loaded rake of wagons and a prop.

MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 April 1942 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he received a

fractured spine caused by a fall of stone from the roof in his working place.


MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 May 1942 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from internal injuries he

received when he was struck by a runaway skip when going home from work up No. 2 haulage road.

MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 June 1942 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a

runaway full skips in No. 2 tunnel haulage road.

MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 August 1943 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from coronary thrombosis

due to or aggravated by strain while working.

MINE: Bowen State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 October 1943 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was laying a

pipe line and an electric current came into contact with the pipe, which he was holding with chain tongs.

MINE: Lowfield No. 2 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 1944 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by asphyxiation when he

was engaged in withdrawing timber from an abandoned tunnel and was buried by a fall of loose earth.

MINE: Bowen Consolidated Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 1945 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a coronary occlusion

when he was lifting a piece of timber. MINE: Rylance No. 3 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 1945 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured while working at the coal

face and was struck by a fall of roof stone.

MINE: New Ebbw Vale No. 3 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 February 1945 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Four men were fatally injured from a gas

and coal dust explosion.

MINE: Box Flat Extended No. 4 Colliery, Ipswich

DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 January 1946 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to internal injuries he

received from a fall of top coal. MINE: Rhonnda No. 1 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 March 1946 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from severe head injuries

that he received from a fall of top coal. MINE: Dawson Valley Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 July 1946 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured from a

runaway skip. MINE: Rothwell Haigh No. 2 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 September 1946 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from internal injuries when

he was working and a fall of top coal occurred.

MINE: Aberdare Extended No. 1 Colliery,

Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 28 September 1946 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured due to an

outbreak of fire in the south dip section of the mine. They were asphyxiated by coming into contact with poison fumes that had entered the workings as a result of a collapse of a stopping that had been erected to seal off the fire area.

MINE: Collinsville State Colliery, Collinsville DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 July 1947 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was trying to

control his horse when he either fell off or was knocked down and was subsequently run over by the skips.

MINE: Dawson Valley New Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 October 1947 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a piece of timber in

an alligator caught on a sleeper causing the alligator to capsize and fall on him.

MINE: Rosewood No. 2 Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 December 1947 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a punctured lung

whilst at work at the coal face when he was struck by a fall of roof stone.


MINE: Styx No. 3 State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 January 1948 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Drillman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the top

deck of the cage to the bottom deck whilst being wound up the shaft.

MINE: Rothwell Haigh No. 5 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 April 1948 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a crushed chest

that was caused by a fall of coal that pinned him against a prop.

MINE: Portland No. 2 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 September 1948 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a

runaway empty rake. 1949 No fatalities 1950 No fatalities MINE: Dawson Valley Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 10 February 1951 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Deputy ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by an alligator skip in the

main tunnel. MINE: Haigmoor Extended Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 May 1951 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of roof stone that

occurred at the working face. MINE: Haigmoor Extended Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 July 1951 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of roof stone that

occurred at the working face. MINE: Jubilee Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 July 1951 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of brushing stone

that occurred at the working face.

MINE: Bowen Consolidated Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 17 January 1952 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his arm became

jammed between buffers of railway wagons whilst shunting loaded wagons to the surface.

MINE: United No. 7 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 January 1952 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a crushed chest

which he received when he was struck by a wagon.

MINE: Neath Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 June 1952 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a

fall of stone at the working face. MINE: United No. 5 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 February 1953 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a

prop that was displaced by a fall of coal. MINE: Collinsville State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 March 1953 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof stone at

the coal face. MINE: Bowen Consolidated Colliery

(Scottville) DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 June 1953 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from severe head injuries

which he received from a fall of coal at the coal face.

MINE: Rothwell Haigh No. 4 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 July 1953 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by

coal from a shot while working at the coal face.

MINE: Collinsville State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 November 1953 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck on

the head by a lump of coal which overshot the railway wagon under the coal chute.


MINE: Rylance No. 3 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 September 1954 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from internal injuries from

a fall of coal from rib side in the working place during pillar extraction.

MINE: Collinsville State Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 October 1954 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Seven men were fatally injured from an

outburst of carbon monoxide at the coal face No. 3 west level No. 1 tunnel.

1955 No fatalities MINE: Mount Mulligan Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 November 1956 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by

timber whilst operating a circular saw. MINE: Burnett Colliery, Selene DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 March 1957 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Surface Labourer ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he slipped and fell

between the rails, preparing to couple moving railway wagons loaded with coal.

MINE: Tannymorel Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 May 1957 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a severe compound

fracture of the skull when he was caught under a collapse of roof measures.

MINE: Victory East Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 May 1957 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Shiftman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured from fractures of the pelvis

and severe damage to his legs when he was crushed from a runaway cuddy balance wagon.

MINE: Westvale No. 5 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 January 1958 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof at the

coal face. MINE: Rothwell Haigh No. 6 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 August 1958 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof at the

coal face.

MINE: Rylance Abermain No. 2 Colliery, Ipswich

DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 June 1959 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof at the

coal face. MINE: Haigmoor Colliery, Ipswich DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 August 1959 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof at the

coal face. MINE: Moggil Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 November 1960 SEX: Male INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed

beneath a colliery motor truck which rolled from a private mine roadway.

MINE: Aberdare No. 9 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 July 1961 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured as a result of a charge of

explosives in an adjoining working place. MINE: Kianga Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: December 1961 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by

loaded rail trucks. MINE: United No. 8 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 1962 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he tripped and fell

against a diesel locomotive, striking his head against the metal structure of the cabin.

MINE: Kianga Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 1962 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was accidentally

run over by the rear wheels of an empty Euclid motor truck that was reversing to be loaded by a mechanical shovel.

MINE: Moura Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 1962 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Electrician ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was electrocuted

whilst working on the installation of a transformer station at the washing plant.


MINE: Haigmoor Extended Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 September 1963 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was electrocuted

whilst using a power boring machine. MINE: Rylance No. 3 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 September 1963 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contract Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fall of roof stone at

his working place due to insufficient timbers and aggravated by slicken sides.

MINE: Rylance No. 6 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 September 1963 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a coronary occlusion

whilst working underground. MINE: Blair Athol Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 1964 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Truck Attendant ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was run over by

a rake of full coal hoppers at the rail siding.

MINE: Rylance Abermain No. 2 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 22 March 1965 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Mine Deputy ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a fall of coal off the

rib fell on him. MINE: Box Flat No. 5 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 August 1965 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Underground Labourer ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed by

a 70 lb rope roller which had become detached in the main haulage way.

MINE: Edward S Cornwall Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 August 1965 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Timber Crewman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a fall of ground that

extended from the face through an intersection nearby.

MINE: Mount Elliot Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 September 1966 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by a

fall of stone working under unsupported roof.

MINE: Cornwall Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 April 1967 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a crushed chest and

abdominal injuries that he received from a fall of roof.

MINE: Moreton Extended Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 May 1967 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from a fractured skull

when he was hit by a dislodged leg of a crown displaced by a fall of rib coal.

MINE: Moura No. 1 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 8 August 1967 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was crushed

against a loading machine as a result of a fall of coal from the face.

MINE: Moggil Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 December 1967 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he received head

and chest injuries caused by a fall of roof.

MINE: Abermain Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 February 1968 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he received a

punctured lung and haemorrhage caused by a fall of coal from the roof.

MINE: Moura Underground Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 September 1968 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Died on way to hospital from his injuries

after being buried under a fall of coal from the roof.

MINE: Box Flat No. 7 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 April 1969 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Shiftman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured after being hit by a wagon

when thrown out of a runaway manrake. MINE: Moreton Extended Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 May 1969 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Deputy ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was hit by a

falling lump of coal.


MINE: Sirius Creek No. 1 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 July 1969 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured from head and neck

injuries received when he fell or was knocked from a ladder in the sinking shaft.

MINE: Haigmoor Extended Colliery, Tivoli DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 August 1970 YEAR OF BIRTH: 1946 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface Workshop INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his chest was

crushed by the apron of a coal loader which fell on him.

MINE: Callide Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 November 1971 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Lump Breaker ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface – Coal Bins INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when

crushed by a runaway diesel “Autocar” vehicle.

MINE: Box Flat No. 5 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 May 1971 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a pawl jumping out

from a parking lock allowed a shuttle car to run back down the dip resulting in crushing injuries.

MINE: New Hope No. 5 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 14 December 1971 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Timberman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground, No. 3 Miner Section –

Working Face INCIDENT: Fatally injured from fall of roof. MINE: Sirius Creek No. 2 Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 April 1971 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground West Drift No. 7 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when trapped under a roof

fall that occurred at an intersection. MINE: Sirius Creek No. 2 Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 January 1972 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Electrician ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a gas ignition

occurred in the Main Lower Seam. MINE: Moura Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 February 1972 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Haul Unit Operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured by drowning when the

haul unit he was driving ran off the main road and over turned in a roadside pond.

MINE: Sirius Creek No. 2 Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 August 1972 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Machineman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by an explosion caused by

an oxy acetylene flame igniting methane close to the floor of the roadway of the East Drift.

MINE: Southern Cross No. 10 Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 4 September 1972 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Timberman ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a fallout of roof

occurred at the working face. MINE: Box Flat No. 8 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 April 1972 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Crew member of a continuous miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a roof fall caused

him to be buried on top of the machine. MINE: New Hope Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 July 1972 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Main Dip Road INCIDENT: Fatally injured when struck by a runaway

track mounted rake. MINE: Box Flat No. 7 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 July 1972 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Electrician ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground and Conveyor Drift Entry INCIDENT: On July 31, 1972, 14 men underground

and three men at the No. 5 conveyor drift entry were fatally injured when a major explosion occurred during the process of fighting an underground fire.

MINE: Rhonnda No. 1 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 February 1973 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Electrician ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured (electrocution) when the

fingers of his left hand came into contact with the live terminals of an isolating switch.

MINE: M W Haenke Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 June 1973 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured as a result of injuries

sustained in a fall of stone. MINE: Laleham No. 1 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 11 February 1974 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a Torkar Shuttle Car

moving down an incline ran over him.


MINE: New Hope Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 March 1974 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Deputy ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when struck by a prop

lying on the floor in the path of a shuttle car. He later died from these injuries on 25 March 1974)

MINE: Goonyella Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 March 1974 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured (electrocution) when the

jib strut of a crane came into contact with the conductors of an 11kV power transmission line.

MINE: Southern Cross No. 9 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 3 June 1974 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured as a result of injuries

sustained in a fall of roof. MINE: New Hope No. 6 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 January 1975 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was struck by the

boom of a continuous miner. MINE: Southern Cross Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 May 1975 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured in a fall of

coal from a rib some 30 feet back from the face.

MINE: Goonyella Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 May 1975 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his Land Cruiser

came into contact with a Coal Hauler causing the Coal Hauler to pass over the Land Cruiser.

MINE: Goonyella Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 21 November 1975 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the End Loader he

was driving overturned into a pit. MINE: Kianga No. 1 Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 September 1975 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground No. 4 North Section INCIDENT: 13 men were fatally injured in an

underground explosion following an outbreak of spontaneous combustion.

MINE: Dacon Open-cut Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: November 1976 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the water truck he

was driving ran out of control down a ramp, plunged into a pit and onto the bucket of a loader.

MINE: Laleham No. 1 Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 27 February 1976 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured due to a fall of roof. MINE: Moura Open-cut Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: May 1977 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Machine Operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when the 834 Caterpillar

he was driving fell over an embankment which collapsed whilst coal was being levelled.

MINE: Leichhardt Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 December 1978 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when an

outburst of coal and gas occurred in the development heading in the North Panel.

MINE: Moura No. 2 Underground Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 13 November 1979 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Cablehand – Continuous Miner Crew ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a large slab of coal

fell from the side of the roadway. MINE: New Hope Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 24 August 1980 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Electrical Apprentice ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he received an

electric shock from an item of electrical equipment in the workshop.

MINE: South Blackwater Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 September 1980 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Fitter - Welder ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface Coal Preparation Plant INCIDENT: Fatally injured (electrocution) whilst he

was engaged in welding in the coal preparation plant repairing a screen deck in a confined space.

1981 No fatalities


MINE: Laleham No. 1 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 March 1982 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground – Pillar Extraction INCIDENT: Three men were fatally injured by a roof

fall caused by lateral movement when their continuous miner was engaged in ‘lifting off’ a fender in an extraction panel.

1983 No fatalities MINE: New Whitwood No. 3 Open-cut Coal

Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 March 1984 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a Caterpillar 777

Rear Dump Truck plunged over a bank and fell approximately 21 metres to the floor of the open-cut.

MINE: Moura No. 4 Underground Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 June 1985 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground 4 South Section of Moura

No. 4 INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a section of a seven

metre high rib fell on him during the removal of bottoms coal in the 4 South Section of the mine whilst he was driving a shuttle car, partially burying him.

MINE: Collinsville Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 October 1985 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his truck

accidentally collided with a parked rear dump truck.

MINE: Peak Downs Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 May 1986 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contractor ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst refitting a drag rope

sheave assembly on a dragline when the lifting gear failed causing the crane to trap him against the sheave assembly.

MINE: Goonyella Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 November 1986 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contractor ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when his rear dump truck

rolled over the edge of a dumping site. MINE: Moura No. 4 Underground Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 16 July 1986 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: 12 men were fatally injured in an

underground explosion attributed to an ignition caused by a flame safety lamp.

1987 No fatalities

MINE: Moura No. 2 Underground Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 April 1988 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst he was tending to

the continuous miner cable at the rear of the machine when a large section of rib coal fell onto him.

MINE: Collinsville No. 2 Underground Coal

Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 August 1988 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Deputy ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he was buried under

a fall of rib-coal brought down by a major roof collapse.

MINE: Oaky Creek Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 23 July 1988 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a service truck

which he was operating ran backwards, crushing him between it and a D9L Caterpillar Bulldozer which was being serviced.

MINE: Norwich Park Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 2 September 1989 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Assistant Dragline Operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured in a collision between a

Caterpillar D9 Bulldozer and a Toyota Landcruiser that he had driven and stopped in the direct line approach of the bulldozer.

MINE: German Creek Southern Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 1 March 1990 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Plant Operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when a front end loader

he was operating near a mine portal lost control and crashed into a stone roof pushing the cab forward, crushing the operator against the steering wheel and control panel.

MINE: Newlands Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 September 1990 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contractor ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured after receiving serious

burns as the result of a gas explosion from a build up of LPG in the revolving frame of a dragline during gouging and welding operations.


MINE: Oakleigh No. 3 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 November 1990 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Continuous Miner Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured in a roof collapse during

pillar extraction when several large slabs of sandstone roof pinned him against the continuous miner.

MINE: Goonyella Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 December 1990 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when attempting to clear a

ROM feeder using water, when the coal fluidised, burying the victim.

1991 No fatalities MINE: Collinsville No. 2 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 March 1992 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Training Miner Driver ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Pillar Extraction INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst training on a miner

remote control when a nearby rib fell into the mesh. Took fright and ran across the cutter drums. He was caught and dragged into the cutter drums.

MINE: Gregory Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 December 1992 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contractor ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface - Workshop INCIDENT: Fatally injured when he fell from the top

of a D11 dozer whilst it was being assembled.

MINE: Moura Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 December 1993 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Two men were fatally injured when an

unmanned Caterpillar Water Truck collided with a Service Truck pushing it sideways into a Caterpillar End Loader. The two men were in the space between the service truck and the end loader when the incident occurred.

MINE: Moura No. 2 Underground Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 August 1994 SEX: Male ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground Southern Section INCIDENT: 11 men were fatally injured due to an

underground explosion attributed to spontaneous combustion behind a recently sealed section of the mine.

1995 No fatalities

MINE: Oaky Creek No. 1 Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 19 September 1996 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface – Water Lagoon INCIDENT: Fatally injured by drowning when the

MPV transport vehicle he was driving ran off the surface area into a surface water lagoon.

MINE: Laleham Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 November 1996 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground - Coalface INCIDENT: Fatally injured whilst operating a

continuous miner outside the confines of the machine. Caught between the ribside and the continuous miner.

MINE: New Hill Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 25 March 1997 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Deputy ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground - Coalface INCIDENT: Fatally injured after receiving crush

injuries in a rib fall which pinned him against the continuous miner.

MINE: Blackwater Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 5 May 1997 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Diesel Fitter ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface Haul Road INCIDENT: Fatally injured by crush injuries in the

cabin of a Toyota Land Cruiser after the Land Cruiser was run over by a Water Truck.

1998 No fatalities 1997 No fatalities MINE: Jellinbah Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 15 March 2000 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Fitter ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface – In vicinity of workshop INCIDENT: Fatally injured by falling truck tray body

(approximately 20 tonnes weight) that was being repaired. The tray fell on him whilst he was attempting to insert a pin into the under side of the tray body to attach a support structure required to facilitate the movement of the tray whilst it was detached from the truck.

MINE: Oaky Creek No. 1 Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 26 May 2000 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a roof fall.



MINE: Cook Colliery DATE OF INCIDENT: 30 August 2000 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured by a rib fall in 12 East

Panel. 2001 No fatalities MINE: Blackwater Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 12 April 2002 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Contract Employee ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured by crush injuries from the

jib of a truck rear mounted crane. 2003 No fatalities 2004 No fatalities MINE: Foxleigh Open Cut Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 7 August 2005 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Truck operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured while removing tyre from

coal haulage truck which forcibly ejected. MINE: Dawson Open Cut Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 September 2005 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Senior Mining Engineer ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Found deceased on the edge of a body

of water at the bottom of the highwall. 2006 No fatalities MINE: Moranbah North Underground Coal

Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 9 April 2007 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Underground INCIDENT: Fatally injured when crushed between

shuttle car and coal rib. MINE: Hyde Park Station – Exploration Site DATE OF INCIDENT: 29 September 2008 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when crushed when

pinned between the rear of a water truck and a metal stock gate

MINE: Blackwater Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 20 February, 2009 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: Fatally injured when light vehicle collided

with rear of low loader and crashed.

MINE: Curragh Open-cut Coal Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 31 August, 2010 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Miner ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: A light vehicle containing four persons

was involved in a single vehicle rollover on a haul road near the top of a ramp. The driver of the vehicle had lost control on a recently watered section of road.

MINE: Foxleigh Open-Cut Mine DATE OF INCIDENT: 18 December, 2010 SEX: Male OCCUPATION: Truck operator ACCIDENT LOCATION: Surface INCIDENT: A truck driver was fatally injured when a

tyre ruptured. The tyre had just been changed and the truck driver was lowering the jack.

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