Mining company pleads guilty to 'unsafe workplace' over two deaths

Monday, 8 Aug 2016 09:01:56

Police and officials meet at the Mount Lyell copper mine after two workers were killed. (ABC News: Emily Bryan)

Copper Mines of Tasmania (CMT) has pleaded guilty to a workplace safety charge over the deaths of two underground employees at Mt Lyell in December 2013.

Craig Nigel Gleeson, 45, and 25-year-old Alistair Michael Lucas died after falling about 20 metres down a shaft at the mine at Queenstown on Tasmania's west coast.

CMT is charged with failing to maintain a safe workplace in relation to the incident.

One of the two maintenance workers is believed to have been killed instantly, while the other died on the way to hospital.

The two men had been working on a temporary wooden platform near the bottom of the mine's main shaft when a linkage assembly fell onto the platform, causing it to break away.

CMT's Peter Walker said the company very much regretted the incident and had been in touch with the families of the two men to inform them of the company's plea, as well as with the family of Michael Welsh, who died as a result of a separate mud rush incident at the mine in January 2014.

The case has been adjourned for sentencing in November.

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Mining company pleads guilty to 'unsafe workplace' over two deaths

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