{"id":486965,"date":"2026-01-02T11:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:24:14","slug":"one-man-missing-another-in-hospital-after-collapse-at-curragh-coal-mine-in-central-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486965\/","title":{"rendered":"One man missing, another in hospital after collapse at Curragh Coal Mine in Central Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">One man is in hospital and another remains missing after an industrial incident at Curragh Coal Mine in Central Queensland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police were called to the mine, near Blackwater, about 3pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Initial information indicates one man was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and one other man remains unaccounted for,&#8221; a Queensland Police Service spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Police will assist partner agencies with their investigations of the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coal\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ac4019cae13274d98b606d64b54990b4.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Emergency services were called to the Central Queensland mine about 3pm on Friday. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Acting Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Tony Perrett said he had been briefed on the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Emergency crews, including the Queensland Mines and Rescue Service, are on site and doing everything possible,&#8221; he said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He said two workers had been &#8220;recovered safely&#8221;, while work was continuing to rescue a third worker.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"EmphasisedText_quote__TE6kn\"><p>&#8220;My thoughts are with all of those involved, their loved ones, the entire mining community,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A spokesperson for the state&#8217;s resources safety regulator, Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ), said a roof had collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Resources Safety and Health Queensland was made aware of an incident involving a roof collapse that occurred at a central Queensland coal mine this afternoon,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;RSHQ, along with emergency services and mines rescue, is responding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Our current focus is on supporting efforts to recover a worker involved in the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The mine&#8217;s parent company Coronado Global Resources said it was aware of the incident but did not provide comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Rescue operations remain underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man is in hospital and another remains missing after an industrial incident at Curragh Coal Mine in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,219905,219902,219903,16530,50,53300,219904],"class_list":{"0":"post-486965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-coronado-global-resources","10":"tag-curragh-coal-mine","11":"tag-dale-last","12":"tag-mining","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-queensland-police-service","15":"tag-resources-safety-health-queensland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115825257652057992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}