Hefty Fines After Australian Underground Mine Worker Dies in Pit

Published on December 18, 2023

Two mining companies and a shift supervisor have copped A$1.57 million (US$1.06 million) in fines after a worker drove a loader into a massive underground hole and died amid lax safety procedures. There were no safety barriers around the excavated void at West Australia’s Whirling Dervish underground gold mine in July 2020 because a supervisor removed them, the Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety said on Dec. 18. Emergency personnel were not able to attempt to rescue the man who could be seen lying outside the loader in the 25-metre-deep pit, known as a stope, due to the risk of a potentially deadly rock fall....

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