Fatality statistics in the Western Australian mining industry
Fatality statistics in the Western Australian mining industry capture the number of people killed in the industry in the Australian state of Western Australia. During the period 2000-2012 (inclusive) a total of 52 fatalities occurred.[1] In 2006, the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia commissioned a taxonomic study to analyse the 306 mining fatalities which occurred between 1970 and 2006.[2] The Department of Mines and Petroleum, DMP, the governing authority for the industry in the state, has published statistics for fatalities in mining dating back to 1943 and intends to publish statistics dating back to 1886, though early records are not expected to be exhaustive.[3]
Categorisation
The department lists the fatality statistics categorised by commodity, date, fiscal year, occupation, causes, report status and type of mining (underground or surface).[3] Records up until 1967 are not categorised by commodity and instead appear as "not categorised" in the listing. Categorisation began in 1967 and almost all fatalities are categorised after 1968.[3]
Omissions
The statistics do not include the 2000 Australia Beechcraft King Air crash, when a flight to the Gwalia Gold Mine, with seven Sons of Gwalia employees onboard failed to land, instead continuing on to Burketown, where it eventually crashed, having run out of fuel. The pilot and the planes seven passengers were all killed.[4]
Recent fatalities
As of December 2013, the latest fatality that has occurred in the Western Australian mining industry was on 29 December 2013 at Fortescue Metals Group's Christmas Creek mine. After a period of almost 2 years without a fatality between August 2011 and August 2013, three fatalities have occurred since then.[5][6] The most recent fatalities in the Western Australian mining industry are:
- 29 December 2013: A contractor was killed in the heavy vehicle workshop at FMG's Christmas Creek mine.[7] The second fatality at the mine in four month prompted the Department of Mines and Petroleum to issue special directions to FMG, forcing them to tighten safety procedures on all their mine sites.[6]
- 4 December 2013: Stephen Hampton, a contractor at the Newcrest Mining-owned Telfer Mine was killed while working on the tailings storage facility.[8][6]
- 14 August 2013: Kurt Williams, an electrician at FMG's Christmas Creek mine was killed when he sustained fatal crush injuries.[9][6]
- 16 August 2011: An employee was killed at Rio Tinto's Brockman 2 mine, being crushed by a hydraulic cylinder of a front-end loader.[10][11]
- 7 July 2011: A contractor was crushed by a collapsing crane at BHP Billiton's Port Hedland facility.[12][13]
- 4 June 2011: A scaffolder was fatally injured at Rio Tinto's Dampier port facilities. It was the companies first fatality in the Pilbara since August 2003.[14][10]
- 24 December 2010: A maintenance contractor at the Cloud Break mine, an iron ore mine operated by the Fortescue Metals Group and located in the Pilbara, was fatally injured.[15][16][17]
- 5 August 2010: An underground miner at the Norseman Gold Mine in the Eastern Goldfields was found dead at a new escape rise.[18][19]
- 11 April 2010: An underground loader operator at the Perseverance nickel mine at Leinster, operated by BHP Billiton, drove into an open stope void and fell 20 metres.[20][21]
Multiple fatalities
Multiple fatalities in the Western Australian mining industry are very rare nowadays and none have occurred since June 2000. Here a list of all multiple fatalities in the industry since 1943:[5]
- 2000, 26 June: Three men died as a result of the failure of a sandfill bulkhead at Bronzewing Gold Mine, located in the northern Goldfields.[22][23]
- 1997, 1 September: Two men died during a rockfall in a stope at an underground nickel mine.[24]
- 1990, 7 February: Two men, a foreman and the managing director of a contracting company, died when a concrete block fell down the raise in an underground gold mine.[25]
- 1989, 13 June: Six men died when a decline at the underground Emu Mine, now the Agnew Gold Mine, flooded after heavy rain.[26][27][28]
- 1985, 11 December: Two men died in the stope of an underground nickel mine due to lack of oxygen.[29]
- 1978, 9 June: Two men died, suffocating, while cleaning a converter vessel in a nickel plant.[30]
- 1977, 14 July: Two men died, being struck by an iron ore train while doing track maintenance.[31]
- 1977, 27 April: Five men died when a kibble fell into the shaft of an underground nickel mine due to a winder malfunction.[32]
- 1975, 28 May: Two men were killed by a rock fall in an underground nickel mine.[33]
- 1974, 13 August: Two men died in a head-on collision of two in an iron ore mine.[34]
- 1960, 12 October: Two men were killed in an explosives accident underground.[35]
- 1960, 24 August: Two men were killed when falling out of a cage.[36]
- 1954, 18 November: Two men were killed in an explosives accident.[37]
- 1953, 5 January: Two men died when they were buried by a ground fall.[38]
- 1952, 19 July: Two men died when they were buried by a slime dump.[39]
- 1951, 30 November: Two men were killed in a gas explosion.[40]
- 1951, 5 October: Two men were killed in an explosives accident.[41]
- 1951, 1 June: Three men were killed when crushed by an out-of-control trailer in an underground mine.[42]
- 1950, 10 March: Two men were struck by a descending counterweight.[43]
- 1950, 13 January: Two men were killed by the air blast of a massive rock fall.[44]
- 1946, 1 March: Three men were killed in an underground rock fall.[45]
- 1946, 23 January: Two men were killed in a blast.[46]
- 1943, 17 July: Three men died of suffocation underground, two of them while attempting to rescue the third.[47]
Fatalities statistics
These are the statistics of fatalities by year, type of mining and commodity, subdivided into decades:[48]
2011 to 2020
Fatalities in the current decade, as of 1 January 2014:
| Year | GD | IO | NI | BM | BA | DI | DS | SM | UM | All |
| 2011 | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| 2012 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 3 |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 |
| 2011–2020 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
2001 to 2010
Fatalities in the last decade:
| Year | GD | IO | NI | BM | BA | DI | DS | SM | UM | All |
| 2001 | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | 2 | 6 | – | 6 |
| 2002 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2001–2010 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 13 | 42 |
- Only the commodities with fatalities during this decade are listed.
1943 to 2010
Fatalities by decade:
| Year | GD | IO | NI | BM | BA | CY | CL | CM | DI | DS | MS | SA | TT | OT | NC ‡ | All |
| 1943–1950 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 107 | 107 |
| 1951–1960 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 142 | 142 |
| 1961–1970 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 55 | 92 |
| 1971–1980 | 15 | 44 | 31 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 6 | – | – | 5 | 3 | – | 4 | 1 | 114 |
| 1981–1990 | 44 | 8 | 19 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | – | 4 | 4 | 1 | 89 |
| 1991–2000 | 42 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 71 |
| 2001–2010 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 42 |
| 1943–2010 | 127 | 86 | 75 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 307 | 657 |
- ‡ Up until the late 1960s, all fatalities are listed under "not categorised" in the DMP database.
Key
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References
- ↑ REPORT - Fatal accidents in the Western Australian mining industry 2000-2012 (PDF). Western Australia: Government of Western Australia, Department of Mines and Petroleum. 2014. p. 7. ISBN 978 1 922149 20 6. line feed character in
|title=at position 58 (help) - ↑ Fatalities in the West Australian Mining Industry 1970 – 2006 The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA Inc. website, page: 20, prepared by: Roger Kahler, published: 2006, accessed: 22 February 2011
- 1 2 3 Historical extension to fatalities database DMP website, published: 2009, accessed: 19 February 2011
- ↑ Media Release re: Aircraft Accident SGW ASX announcement, published: 5 September 2000, accessed: 8 February 2010
- 1 2 Fatal Accident Reports - By Date WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 19 February 2011
- 1 2 3 4 Christmas Creek mine site on notice to improve safety standards Department of Mines and Petroleum website, published: 30 December 2013, accessed: 1 January 2014
- ↑ Fatality at Fortescue's Christmas Creek mine The Australian, published: 30 December 2013, accessed: 31 December 2013
- ↑ Worker killed at Newcrest's Telfer mine in WA north Australian Broadcasting Corporation, published: 4 December 2013, accessed: 31 December 2013
- ↑ Worker dies at FMG's Christmas Creek iron ore minesite http://www.news.com.au, published: 15 August 2013, accessed: 16 August 2013
- 1 2 Rio Tinto halts mine work after Pilbara death The Australian, published: 17 August 2011, accessed: 25 August 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 16/08/2011 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 25 August 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 07/07/2011 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 2 July 2011
- ↑ BHP halts Port Hedland ops after fatality The Sydney Morning Herald, published: 7 July 2011, accessed: 14 July 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 04/06/2011 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 2 July 2011
- ↑ Iron ore operation suspended after death The Herald Sun, published: 24 December 2010, accessed: 25 December 2010
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 24/12/2010 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Media Release - Incident at Cloudbreak Minesite FMG ASX , published: 24 December 2010, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 05/08/2010 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatality at the Norseman Project Norseman Gold Plc ASX announcement, published: 6 August 2010, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 11/04/2010 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Death halts BHP mine work The Age, published: 13 April 2010, accessed: 22 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 26/06/2000 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Minister calls meeting of mining industry chiefs to drive safety Government of Western Australia, published: 7 September 2000, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 01/09/97 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 07/02/90 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 13/06/89 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Miners injured in collapse at underground gold mine ABC News, published: 10 January 2012, accessed: 16 August 2013
- ↑ EMU MINE DISASTER Department of mines report, published: 10 April 1990, accessed: 16 August 2013
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 11/12/85 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 09/06/78 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 14/07/77 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 27/04/77 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 28/05/75 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 13/08/74 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 12/10/60 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 24/08/60 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 18/11/54 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 05/01/53 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 19/07/52 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 30/11/51 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 05/10/51 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 01/06/51 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 10/03/50 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 13/01/50 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 21 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 01/03/1946 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 22 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 23/01/1946 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 22 February 2011
- ↑ Fatal Accident Report 17/07/1943 WA mining fatalities database, accessed: 22 February 2011
- ↑ Western Australian mining fatalities database accessed: 19 February 2011
External links
- Government of Western Australia website
- Department of Mines and Petroleum website
- Western Australian mining fatalities database
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