Queensland mining company charged with industrial manslaughter in state first
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6QF23)
Charges laid over death of coalminer Graham Dawson, who was killed when a roof collapsed at Mastermyne's Crinum Mine in 2021
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A coalmining company has become the first to be charged with industrial manslaughter in Queensland, three years after the death of a worker.
Graham Dawson, 60, was killed when a roof at Mastermyne's Crinum Mine in central Queensland collapsed and crushed him in 2021.
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