Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Daniel COMRIE
Age at Death33
Date Of Death13 September 2002
OccupationHaulpack Driver
Australian Minerals Industry Safety & Health Safety Survey Report Jul02-Sep02
The Age, 20 January 2004.
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Mount Keith Nickel Mine, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Mr Daniel Comrie, an employee of Roche Mining, was driving a truck at WMC’s Mt Keith operation when a significant section of a main ramp accessing the lower section of the pit collapsed and the truck fell over the ramp edge. The truck rolled approximately 50 metres down the pit slope and came to rest completely submerged in a sump at the bottom of the slope. Police divers had to be used to find the body of Mr Comrie, after the truck landed in a 14-metre-deep pool of water at the bottom of a disused part of the mine.
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
District
Mt Keith
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Robert COMRIE
Mother
Jane Beuley HOLLIDAY
Other Information
Came from Victoria.
