Coalminer killed by roof cave-in
PA Invercargill A miner was killed in the Morley underground coalmine at Ohai yesterday when the roof he was working to support caved in. He was
Brian Crawford Burgess, aged 45, married, a mine deputy, of Ohai.
Two other miners working with him at the time were not injured.
The three men had been installing roof bolts to secure the roof of a newly developed section of the mine, said the district manager of State Coal Mines at Ohai, Mr Rex Brown.
Mr Burgess, who was standing in front of Brendan Flynn and Adrian Connew, was buried by the coal. He was dead when the other two
miners dug him out. Both Mr Brown and the president of the OhaiNightcaps District Mine Workers’ Union, Mr Ray Terry, said there had been no breach of safety regulations. “Coal just behaves like that sometimes,” Mr Brown said. "At times you run into areas where the coal is extremely lively. It gutters up in the roof.”
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Press, 14 February 1986, Page 4
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