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Subscriber only Veteran miner Peter Guinea and his fellow teammates have been called into a meeting with the site superintendent during the COVID-19 lockdown. He says the superintendent tells them they have crunched the numbers and there is going to be people laid off at the mine site, specifically, labour hire workers. It s June 2020 and they are given assurances that it probably won t happen for three months or so. Mr Guinea speaks up, asking the superintendent if fly-in-fly-out workers would be told they had lost their job before they flew home. This way they could collect their work boots and clothes before they left.
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A rare inquiry set up after last year’s horrific underground disaster at Anglo American’s Grosvenor mine is now finalising its investigation into the incident.
Since the hearings launched on March 9, the board has heard evidence from 15 witnesses including mining inspectors from Resources Safety and Health Queensland, industry experts and injured coal mine worker Wayne Sellars.
The hearings explored the Grosvenor mine disaster on May 6 2020 and the 27 methane exceedances that occurred at the mine between July 1 2019 and May 5 2020.
They also covered the role of the Mines Inspectorate and its response to high potential incidents.
An inquiry spokeswoman said the board was currently finalising its investigation and writing part two of its report.
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Subscriber only Hundreds of workers at Grosvenor mine have signed a petition calling for its senior leadership team to be sacked, saying safety culture has not been addressed since a blast left five workers with horrific burns. The petition was sent to Anglo American s metallurgical coal business chief executive Tyler Mitchelson from CFMEU mining and energy Queensland president Stephen Smyth on behalf of more than 200 workers. It stated employees at the Anglo American-owned mine expressed extreme concern about returning to work under the management team that oversaw the underground blast of May 2020 which injured five men. Since the explosions, Anglo American s senior leadership team at Grosvenor have given us no reason to believe they have addressed the culture of poor safety or that they have put in place measures that will prevent a repeat disaster, the petition read.
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