TIMELINE OF LOSSES

SEPT 15, 2021: 60-year-old worker was killed when he was working on roof supports and was hit by falling rock at the Sojitz Crinum Gregory Mine near Emerald.

JAN 12, 2020: Donald Rabbitt, 33, died at Curragh coalmine near Blackwater when he was crushed by a low-loader while changing a tyre.

NOV 25, 2019: Brad Duxbury, 57, died at Carborough Downs coalmine at Coppabella.

JULY 7, 2019: Jack Gerdes, 27, was killed at the Baralaba North Coal Mine when he became entangled in stairs while working on machinery.

JUNE 26, 2019: David Routledge was operating a digger on a shelf inside the mine when the wall collapsed onto the machine about 12.40pm, trapping him, at Middlemount Coal Mine. Crews were unable to reach him for more than seven hours, due to the unstable and unsafe scene. When they reached him, he was declared deceased.

FEBRUARY 2, 2019: Bradley Hardwick was killed at Anglo American’s Moranbah North mine when two pieces of machinery collided underground.

DECEMBER 31, 2018: Allan Houston was fatally injured when his bulldozer overturned at BMA’S Saraji Open Cut

Coal Mine near Moranbah.

NOVEMBER 15, 2018: Connor-shaye Milne, 21, was killed when he became entangled in the rotating tail drum of a conveyor belt at a site off the Peak Downs Highway at Wolfang, near Clermont.

JULY 29, 2018: Adam Malone, 25, was operating a dump truck when it rolled over at a quarry near Collinsville.

AUGUST 5, 2017: Daniel Springer was fatally injured while carrying out repairs on a large excavator bucket. He was contractor with independent Mining Services at BMA’S Goonyella Riverside Mine.

AUGUST 30, 2016: Ian Hansen was fatally injured by a falling deck plate that he and other workers were removing at Glencore’s Newlands Mine Coal Handling and Preparation Plant.