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The mine was reopened after four months and suffered surprisingly little damage from the explosion. In 1923, the Queensland Government bought it from the operators. It was in operation until 1957, although it was heavily subsidised after World War II. The mine's final demise occurred with the completion of the Tully Falls hydro electricity ...
Goonyella-Riverside coal mine outrush of coal and water – 1991 [12] South Bulli coal mine incident resulting in the death of 3 miners – 1991 [13] Western Main coal mine Pillar Collapse resulting in the death of 3 miners – 1991 [14] Moura Open Cut coal mine incident resulting in death of 2 miners and serious injury to 2 others – 1993 [15]
Mining disasters such as the 1954 accident at Collinsville usually led to improvements in mine safety. The Mount Mulligan accident (1921), resulting in the deaths of 75 men and boys, led to the introduction of the Coal Mining Act (1925) which included at least seven new safety provisions. Similarly, the Collinsville accident led to the addition ...
The Bureau County Sheriff's Office said that an autopsy was conducted Tuesday on the remains, which were found June 8 at the site of a former coal mine best remembered for a devastating 1909 fire ...
A plan of the mine showing the site of the explosion, from the royal commission into the accident. The Torbanlea Colliery Disaster was a 1900 mining accident near the town of Torbanlea in the colony of Queensland (now a state of Australia) that claimed the lives of five workers. [1]
The Box Flat Mine disaster occurred on the 31 July 1972 [1] when 17 miners lost their lives after an underground gas and coal dust explosion, 14 men who were working in the vicinity of the explosion and three miners who were working on a belt adjacent to the mine entrance. An eighteenth man Clarence Edwin Wolski died on 20 February 1974 as a ...
Mikesell said the fatal victim and the four people injured were part of a group that was removed from the mine, but another group of 12 people 1,000 feet down wound up being unable to surface due ...
The Collinsville mine disaster was the largest loss of life in a Queensland mine since the Mount Mulligan mine disaster in 1921. [264] Boating accident: Wilson Inlet, Western Australia: 7: 1911 Nov 5: Seven members of the same family drowned when a small yacht Little Wonder was hit by a squall. [265] Boating accident: Lake Hume, New South Wales ...