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Anglo Coal (Dartbrook Management) Pty Ltd

Dartbrook Coal Preparation Plant, Dartbrook near Aberdeen - High risk and injury high voltage electric shock.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

Contravention of section 8(2) of Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000.

Status/outcome

Guilty plea - Convicted and fined $200,000.

Further information

Industrial Court of NSW judgment: [2008] NSWIRComm 172

Finalised

Anglo Coal (Dartbrook Management) Pty Ltd

Dartbrook Mine, Kayuga via Muswellbrook - Fatal injuries to worker - fall of coal mine roof.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

Contravention of section 8(2) of Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000.

Status/outcome

Guilty plea - Convicted and fined $160,000 plus costs.

Further information

Industrial Court of NSW judgment: [2007] NSWIRComm 292

  • Charge against personal defendant dismissed - application of section 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999.
Finalised

United Mining Pty Ltd

United Colliery, Warkworth - Fatally injuries to worker entangled in cutter head of continuous miner.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

-

Status/outcome

Convicted, fined $144,000 plus costs - Industrial Court.

Finalised

United Collieries Pty Ltd

United Colliery, Warkworth - Fatal injuries to worker entangled in cutter head of continuous miner.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

-

Status/outcome

Convicted, fined $144,000 plus costs - Industrial Court.

Finalised

Kembla Coal and Coke Pty Ltd

Coalcliff Colliery, Coalcliff - Burns to member of public from gas leak of abandoned mine.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

-

Status/outcome

Convicted, fined $50,000 plus costs - Industrial Court.

Finalised

Centennial Coal Company Limited

Angus Place Colliery, Lithgow - Fatal injuries to worker - unplanned release of hydraulic fluid under high pressure longwall.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

Contravention of section 8(2) of Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000.

Status/outcome

Guilty plea - Convicted and fined $288,000 plus costs.

Further information

Industrial Court of NSW judgment: [2010] NSWIRComm 4

Finalised

Zinifex Australia Limited (formerly Pasminco Australia Limited)

Elura Mine, Cobar - Fatal injuries to worker - rock burst from sidewall.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

Contravention of section 15(1) of Occupational Health and Safety Act 1983.

Status/outcome

Guilty plea - Convicted and fined $115,000 plus costs.

Further information

Industrial Court of NSW judgement: [2005] NSWIRComm 340

Finalised

Walburn, Robert John

Rickey's Lane Sapphire (Inverell) - Unauthorised mining for sapphires along Frazers Creek.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

Contravention of section 5 of the Mining Act 1992 x3.

Status/outcome

Guilty plea - convicted, fined $60,000, and ordered to pay the Regulator's costs.

Finalised

Waco Kwikform Ltd

Appin Colliery, Douglas Park near Appin - Serious injury to worker scaffold collapse onto conveyor.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

Contravention of section 8(2) of Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000.

Status/outcome

Guilty plea - Convicted and fined $120,000 plus costs.

Further information

Industrial Court of NSW judgment: [2011] NSWIRComm 108

Finalised

Ulan Coal Mines Limited; Ulan West Operations Pty Ltd

Ulan West Operations, Ulan - Serious injuries when struck by pipe end while pressure testing.

Date of incident
Decision date
Offence/allegation details

Contravention of section 32 of Work Health and Safety Act 2011, by failing to comply with a health and safety duty under section 19 of the Act.

Status/outcome

Proceedings discontinued in District Court of NSW. Regulator decision to accept a WHS undertaking.

Further information

WHS undertaking

Finalised