{"id":955790,"date":"2026-11-07T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955790\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T09:54:10","slug":"man-75-dies-in-mine-incident-at-regis-resources-goldfields-operation-in-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/955790\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 75, dies in mine incident at Regis Resources&#8217; Goldfields operation in WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 75-year-old man has died following a workplace incident at a mine site in Western Australia&#8217;s Goldfields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The incident happened at Regis Resources&#8217; Duketon South operation, about 130 kilometres north of Laverton and more than 700km from Perth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to the mining camp at Bandya about 12:30pm on Friday, November 6, where mine site medical staff provided first aid before they arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man could not be revived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Regis Resources confirmed the man was a member of its contract team and was carrying out work at the Duketon South operation when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Regis Resources says operations at Duketon have been stood down while investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">WorkSafe is investigating the death, with investigators and inspectors making arrangements to attend the scene as soon as practicable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">WA Police will also prepare a report for the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">WorkSafe Commissioner Sally North has extended her condolences to the man\u2019s family, friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Regis Resources says it is providing support to those affected by the incident, with employee assistance programs activated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 75-year-old man has died following a workplace incident at a mine site in Western Australia&#8217;s Goldfields. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[523059,523060,523057,11224,6268,43,62900,6827,133641,44,320517,523058,41,39,42,40,7977,289310,18707],"class_list":["post-955790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bandya","tag-contract-worker","tag-duketon-south","tag-fatal","tag-goldfields","tag-headlines","tag-mine","tag-mining","tag-mining-incident","tag-news","tag-regis-resources","tag-sally-north","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-police","tag-work-death","tag-worksafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955790","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=955790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}