Searchers have found a body in an underground coalmine a day after the worker was trapped under a collapsed roof.<\/p>\n
The man was inside the Curragh mine in central Queensland when the collapse happened about 3pm on Friday.<\/p>\n
Emergency responders found the dead worker on Saturday evening, state acting mines minister Tony Perrett said.<\/p>\n
“One worker was safely recovered yesterday, while specialist teams worked through the night to stabilise the site and access the second individual,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“Tragically, that worker could not be saved.”<\/p>\n
Curragh Coal Mine is north of Blackwater, about 200km 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
Curragh has been owned by Coronado Global Resources since buying the mine in 2018.<\/p>\n
Coronado chief executive Douglas Thompson said the company was deeply saddened by the incident and extended its deepest sympathies to the family and colleagues of the worker.<\/p>\n
He said it was providing support to contracted mine operator Mammoth Underground Mine Management, which was working with authorities to understand the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n
A Coronado spokesperson said earlier that all underground mining operations had been suspended.<\/p>\n
In a separate incident about 300km north of Curragh, a gold prospector working at a private mine site died after being hit by falling rocks.<\/p>\n
The 58-year-old man had been working alone with an excavator at a Mount Britton property when a rock face partially collapsed on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Injuries to his leg caused by a falling rock eventually claimed the man’s life, police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Perrett said both incidents were “tragic reminders of the risks faced by those who work in our resources sector”.<\/p>\n
“Every worker deserves to return home safely, and I expect full and thorough investigations into both incidents to ensure answers are provided and lessons are learned.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Searchers have found a body in an underground coalmine a day after the worker was trapped under a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216660,"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-216659","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\/216659","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=216659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}