The rockfall at the Ballarat Gold Mine trapped 27 workers, 26 of whom were rescued on Wednesday. Follow the day’s news live
AWU Victorian branch secretary Ronnie Hayden said the man and another, who was freed on Wednesday night, were performing a manual type of mining called air legging when the collapse occurred:
We have spoken to WorkSafe. We were at the site last night until late. We are meeting with WorkSafe again shortly this morning to get more information on it. But we do know that the two workers were air legging, which is a type of manual mining, it appears under unsupported ground and there was a collapse.
About 5pm last night, we got a call from our members to attend the mine, being told that two of them were trapped underground. Shortly after that we were actually informed that one of their miners was killed at work. So it’s no longer a rescue. It’s now a recovery.
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