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:

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]

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
20112020 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
20012010 14 14 9 1 1 1 2 29 13 42

1943 to 2010

Fatalities by decade:

Year GD IO NI BM BA CY CL CM DI DS MS SA TT OT NC All
19431950 107 107
19511960 142 142
19611970 12 12 6 1 1 1 1 3 55 92
19711980 15 44 31 4 1 6 5 3 4 1 114
19811990 44 8 19 4 1 1 1 2 4 4 1 89
19912000 42 8 10 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 71
20012010 14 14 9 1 1 1 2 42
19432010 127 86 75 3 12 1 5 8 3 3 8 4 4 11 307 657

Key

References

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