The Queensland Coal Mine Inquiry is peeling back a range of factors related to the Grosvenor Coal mine incident. Some should alarm underground mine workers, mine operators and the Queensland...
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Workers at all three AngloAmerican’s underground coal mines in central Queensland are concerned about safety, especially regarding the management of dangerous gases, in the wake of last month’s...
Coroners findings Paul McGuire – The Central Coroner, David O’Connell has handed down his findings on the death of Anglo American Electrician Paul McGuire today. On 6 May 2014, Paul was...
The Coronial inquest into the death of mine electrician Paul McGuire is underway at Mackay Magistrate’s Court. AMSJ has prepared a developing timeline of events leading up to the moment when Paul...
A Coronial inquiry into the death of mine electrician has heard this morning that an Anglo American risk assessment conducted prior to the death of Paul McGuire at the Grasstree mine did not identify...
The coronial inquest into the death of mine electrician Paul McGuire has heard from a former Anglo Coal Ventilation Officer, Mine Electrician and Mines Supervising Officer regarding the circumstances...
The Queensland Coroner has scheduled a pre-inquest conference at Mackay into the death of Anglo Coal electrician Paul McGuire who tragically passed away at Grasstree mine following exposure to...
The CFMEU Mining and Energy Division is today calling for tough new laws to punish employers found guilty of fatal negligence (kill a worker), following reports Anglo Coal has pleaded guilty to the...
A fifth case of black lung disease has been confirmed in Queensland, but the latest diagnosis could just be the “tip of the iceberg”. A Middlemount man in his 60s is the latest victim of...
Ian Downes was crushed to death under a collapsed wall last Thursday at Grasstree mine while pressure grouting the sides of an underground road. The 45-year-old contract coal miner was an employee...