After months of legal argument, appeals, and hearings, the president of the Industrial Court of Queensland ruled this month that matters can proceed against Carborough Downs Coal Management over the death of Brad Duxbury in 2019.
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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 not follow its own Safety and Health Management Systems in relation to unstable roof and wall strata.