A worker has died and his colleague has been seriously injured in a vehicle rollover at a mine in WA’s Goldfields.<\/p>\n
Police said the pair was driving along an access road at the King of the Hill gold mine just before 5am yesterday when their vehicle lost control and rolled.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old male passenger of the car died at the scene, while the 32-year-old male driver suffered serious injuries and was taken to Kalgoorlie Health Campus for treatment.<\/p>\n
Police said it was not known why the vehicle lost control.<\/p>\n
The mine, owned by Vault Resources, is more than 850 kilometres north-east of Perth.<\/p>\n
In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, Vault said the man who died was a Delta FM employee.<\/p>\n
Delta FM is the facility management service subcontracted by a catering contractor at the King of the Hills site.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vault Minerals said work had been voluntarily suspended at the site to allow authorities to complete investigations, but was expected to resume today.<\/p>\n
WorkSafe and police investigating<\/p>\n
WorkSafe has confirmed it is investigating the “work-related aspects of the incident”.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the regulator said staff had attended the scene, but were unable to provide further details as the investigation was ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Commissioner Sally North relayed her condolences “to everyone impacted by this tragic event”.<\/p>\n
Major Crash Investigators are also examining the scene and are urging anyone with information or footage related to the incident to contact Crime Stoppers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worker has died and his colleague has been seriously injured in a vehicle rollover at a mine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,53495,6268,289309,62900,161516,10587,45,289310,18707],"class_list":{"0":"post-592540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-gold-mine","12":"tag-goldfields","13":"tag-king-of-the-hills","14":"tag-mine","15":"tag-road-crash","16":"tag-road-safety","17":"tag-wa-news","18":"tag-work-death","19":"tag-worksafe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592540","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=592540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}