A worker is missing and another is recovering in hospital after a roof collapse at a coal mine in Australia. <\/p>\n
Local police were called to Curragh Coal Mine, in Central Queensland, about 3pm (local time) on Friday.<\/p>\n
The missing worker was believed to have been inside the mine when the roof collapsed and could be trapped as deep as 1km underground.<\/p>\n
Queensland’s Acting Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Tony Perrett said emergency service and rescue crews remained on site and were doing everything possible.<\/p>\n
He said two workers had been recovered safely following the collapse, leaving one more trapped.<\/p>\n
“My thoughts are with all of those involved, their loved ones, the entire mining community,” Perrett said. <\/p>\n
Police confirmed on Saturday morning that one of the workers had been taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while the missing man remained unaccounted for.<\/p>\n
Curragh Coal Mine is located north of Blackwater, about 200 kilometres west of Rockhampton.<\/p>\n
The site covers about 256 square kilometres across two separate mines, and has been in operation since 1983.<\/p>\n
Rescue crews will continue their search operation on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worker is missing and another is recovering in hospital after a roof collapse at a coal mine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,85,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-214651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-australia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}