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<\/p>\nA 47-year-old man has died overnight at South32’s Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia, halting operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
WA Police confirmed emergency services were called to the refinery near Collie, about 200km south of Perth, just before 4am on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man died at the scene, despite immediate first aid being carried out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said a report would be prepared for the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The worker died at South32’s refinery in the early hours of Saturday morning. (ABC South West: Sam Bold)<\/p>\n
A South32 spokesperson confirmed the man, a contractor, had been fatally injured while working at the refinery.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson expressed the company’s sympathies and said South 32 was working with the contractor to provide support and counselling.<\/p>\n
Operations at the site had been suspended.<\/p>\n
“Work not critical to the safety and stability of the site has been temporarily suspended,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
he said.<\/p>\n
“We are taking steps to understand what happened and assisting relevant authorities with their inquiries.”<\/p>\n
Worksafe confirmed it was investigating the death, and was unable to comment further.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Commissioner Sally North said the incident was a tragedy, and offered her condolences.<\/p>\n
Union calls for full and transparent investigation<\/p>\n
The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union state secretary Steve McCartney expressed condolences to the man’s family.<\/p>\n
Mr McCartney said the union would also be looking into the circumstances surrounding the death.<\/p>\n
“We will be investigating in the near future and making sure that it never happens again,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
he said.<\/p>\n
The union said workplace fatalities always raised questions as to whether safety procedures were followed and enforced.<\/p>\n
“[We will be] making sure, if there have been any mistakes, then those mistakes don’t happen again,” Mr McCartney said.<\/p>\n
“The next step now is, the union always represents their people, and we’ll be investigating this issue.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old man has died overnight at South32’s Worsley Alumina refinery in Western Australia, halting operations.\u00a0 WA Police…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":654840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[277649,277648,4740,4446,68495,50,7207,277647,163866,9509,277646],"class_list":["post-654839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alumina","tag-alumina-refinery","tag-australia","tag-death","tag-man-dies","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-32","tag-worker-death","tag-worksafe","tag-worsley"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116227041491903778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654839","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=654839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}