The death toll from an explosion which ripped through the Severnaya mine in Arctic Russia has reached 36. The incident, which occurred on Thursday, has been described as the worst mining disaster in...
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A worker at Middlemount’s Grasstree mine was reportedly crushed to death overnight when an underground wall collapsed on top of the 45-year-old man. According to the ABC, police say the miner...
A mine worker who was caught smoking underground, sleeping underground, and was repeatedly late for shift has (unsurprisingly) lost his unfair dismissal claim with the Fair Work Commission. Despite...
A mine worker who committed suicide in a FIFO camp last year was afraid to seek help from mine site counsellors for fear he would lose his job, a FIFO mental health inquiry has heard. Peter Miller...
A worker has died as a result of an incident that took place late yesterday afternoon at BHP’s Worsley alumina refinery near Collie in Western Australia. In a statement, the company said the...
A Supervisor has been charged with drug offences by Roma police in connection with the death of a resources worker on the Australia Pacific LNG project in south west Queensland last week. According...
A contractor from the Gold Coast has died at Origin Energy’s Reedy Creek gas fields in south west Queensland. According to Surat Basin.com, the worker died at approximately 8.45am yesterday...
A miner from BMA’s Saraji mine, near Dysart in Central Queensland, sustained serious burn injuries yesterday morning as a result of a truck fire. According to the CQ News, the man was...
A mine worker sustained leg injuries in an underground incident that occurred last Friday at the Oaky Creek mine near Tieri in Central Queensland. The worker was bought to the surface four hours...
The Pilbara Iron Company has been charged in relation to the death of a mine worker in 2011 by the Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP). Mr Brent Glew died on 16 August 2011...