Over 150 miners have been confirmed killed and hundreds more remain trapped in an underground coal mine in Turkey after an explosion ripped through the mine at 12.30pm last night (local time)...
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Two men have died overnight after a wall collapsed in an underground coal mine in the Hunter Valley of NSW, trapping the two workers. The tragic incident occurred at around 9pm last night at...
Residents of southern Morwell in Victoria are calling on the government to immediately evacuate the town as toxic smoke from the fire at nearby Hazelwood coal mine continues to blanket the community...
A 61 year old worker has died at Rio Tinto’s recently mothballed Gove alumina refinery in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The incident happened yesterday as the worker was completing...
A coronial inquest into the death of a mine worker at BHP’s Perseverance Mine near Leinster in WA has been told that tighter risk assessment controls could have prevented the man’s death...
Poisonous gas from a fire in the Hazelwood coal mine at Morwell in eastern Victoria has forced firefighters to abandon the blaze and seek medical treatment. The ABC reports that seven firefighters...
The boat people detention centre on Nauru is “certainly better than mining camps in Australia”, according to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. The Minister made the astonishing admission on...
A rogue caterpillar on a piece of broccoli has brought construction on a Gladstone gas plant to a screaming halt, after workers voted to strike over food safety. Construction workers at the Central...
Nine out of ten coal mining deaths in Queensland over the past decade have been contractors and not full time employees, according to a new report from the Queensland Mines Inspectorate. The alarming...
A man has been treated in hospital after a gas leak at Rio Tinto’s bauxite operation at Weipa prompted an evacuation of the mine yesterday morning The man suffered freeze burn injuries to his...
