Work accident feed · Industry
Deaths and serious injuries at mines, quarries and energy projects, and the investigations that follow.
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WorkSafe WA is investigating after a fire engulfed the driver’s cab of a heavy-duty mining shovel at Kalgoorlie’s Super Pit. No worker was injured. ABC News reported on 13 September 2026 that…
A 38-year-old man died and a 32-year-old man was seriously injured in a vehicle rollover on an access road to the King of the Hills gold mine near Leonora in Western Australia’s…
Northern Star Mining Services Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of ASX-listed gold miner Northern Star Resources, has accepted a $750,000 fine following a 2023 workplace safety breach that left a worker with severe…
On Thursday, 5 December 2024, a 29-year-old drilling contractor was killed in a workplace accident at the Apollo Hill mineral exploration site in Western Australia's northern Goldfields region. The incident has prompted…
On Thursday, 5 December 2024, a 29-year-old drilling contractor, Peter Groves, was killed in a workplace accident at the Apollo Hill gold project in Western Australia's northern Goldfields. WorkSafe WA was notified…
WorkSafe Western Australia has charged two mining contractors and a mine operator following the deaths of two workers in separate incidents at mines in the Pilbara and Goldfields regions in October 2022.…
On Tuesday, 30 April 2024, a 21-year-old worker died at the St Ives gold mine near Kambalda in Western Australia. The incident occurred shortly before 3:00 pm local time at the Hamlet…
On Tuesday, 14 November 2023, a chemical spill at Alcoa's Pinjarra refinery in Western Australia resulted in five workers requiring medical attention. Two of the injured workers were hospitalized with chemical burns…
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