{"id":539510,"date":"2026-03-14T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539510\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:47:09","slug":"wa-police-confirm-workers-death-at-south32s-worsley-alumina-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539510\/","title":{"rendered":"WA Police confirm worker&#8217;s death at South32&#8217;s Worsley Alumina refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 47-year-old man has died overnight at South32&#8217;s Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia, halting operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">WA Police confirmed emergency services were called to the refinery near Collie, about 200km south of Perth, just before 4am on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man died at the scene, despite immediate first aid being carried out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said a report would be prepared for the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image of an industrial building on a sunny day. There's a carpark in the foreground and steam billowing from smokestacks.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e0c90a4aa82caf35a5649f83ee265d94.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The worker died at South32&#8217;s refinery in the early hours of Saturday morning. (ABC South West: Sam Bold)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A South32 spokesperson confirmed there had been an incident at the refinery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work not critical to the safety and stability of the site has been temporarily suspended,&#8221;  he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We are taking steps to understand what happened and assisting relevant authorities with their inquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Worksafe confirmed it was investigating the death, and was unable to comment further.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Commissioner Sally North said the incident was a tragedy, and offered her condolences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old man has died overnight at South32&#8217;s Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia, halting operations.\u00a0 WA Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[267443,267442,64,63,99,1300,151771,1158,198626,142396,18707,267441],"class_list":["post-539510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alumina","tag-alumina-refinery","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-death","tag-man-dies","tag-police","tag-south-32","tag-worker-death","tag-worksafe","tag-worsley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}