Calls for Sweeping Review After Another Mining Death

A bucket-wheel dumping soil and sand removed from another area of the mine in Newcastle, Australia, the world's largest coal exporting port, on Nov. 5, 2021. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images

Calls for an industry-wide review have been sparked by a worker’s death in central Queensland, the latest in a string of mining fatalities.

Operations have been suspended at the Oaky Creek coal mine amid an investigation into a machinery incident that left one man dead and another seriously injured.