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Premium Content Subscriber only A mine worker was seriously injured at a CQ mine less than three months before Ipswich father Brad Duxbury was killed by falling coal at the same underground site in a strikingly similar incident. The contractor was struck by falling roof linked to a geological fault, and within three weeks of similar collapses in the same area. The Daily Mercury can reveal Carborough Downs Mine Management has been charged in relation to serious alleged safety breaches over the incident. Specialist workplace health and safety prosecutor Aaron Guilfoyle has alleged the mine did ...

Premium Content Subscriber only Workers in mining towns such as German Creek, May Downs, Peak Downs Mine and Moranbah are raking in the most dough in the Isaac region, while those in Hamilton Island and Hayman Island are earning the least. New Australian Bureau of Statistics data has revealed the average full-time salaries for workers across Mackay Isaac Whitsunday and Queensland by postcode. German Creek and May Downs were the richest workers in the Mackay Isaac Whitsunday region, taking home an average wage of $109,994. Peak Downs Mine and Moranbah workers were not far behind with an ave...