Mine workers across Australia are being asked to participate in a research project into work/life balance being conducted by Townsville’s James Cook University. The research project will...
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A tear in the side wall of a tyre led to the death of a Foxleigh Mine worker in December 2010, a Coronial Inquest in Queensland has heard this morning. Wayne Robert MacDonald, 53, was killed at the...
The worker who died at the Boggabri Coal Mine yesterday morning was reportedly operating an open cabin cherry picker at the time of accident and was crushed up against a “metal structure”...
A worker has been killed in an incident that took place this morning at the Boggabri open cut coal mine in New South Wales. According to the Naomi Valley Independent, the 40 year old worker is...
FIFO workers are being forced to live in “mining concentration camps” and enduring “postcode apartheid” near the towns of Blackwater, Moranbah, Middlemount, Dysart and Moura...
More than one in five Australian mining industry workers has experienced mental health problems such as depression and anxiety in the past 12 months, according to beyondblue Chairman Jeff Kennett...
Miners from across the state’s mining regions have been awarded top honours at the highly coveted NSW Minerals Council Health and Safety Innovation Awards. The achievements of these miners were...
500 jobs will be lost from the Glennies Creek and Camberwell mines near Singleton in the NSW Hunter Valley, after mine owners announced late last week that both operations are to be closed. Speaking...
The Riley Creek Iron Ore project in Tasmania is now set to go ahead after a challenge by environmental group, Save the Tarkine, was dismissed by the Federal Court last week. Project owners, Venture...
Preliminary investigations into the tragic death at Middlemount’s Grasstree Mine last week indicate that the worker entered a closed off area of the mine that was not properly signed as being...
