Paige Taylor Counsell - Family Photograph
Paige Taylor COUNSELL
Age at Death25
Date Of Death16 December 2020
OccupationMiner
Paige COUNSELL
Big Bell Mine - Photo SLWA
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Westgold's Big Bell GM, Cue, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Struck by mobile plant equipment underground at the Big Bell mine but died while being transported by the Royal Flying Doctor Service to a Perth hospital .
Paige Taylor Counsell, 15 December 2020
Paige Counsell, a 25 year old underground truck operator
was out of her vehicle, walking in the underground decline
after her truck had broken down. At this time, another
truck was tramming up the decline, the secondary truck
struck Ms Counsell who sustained fatal injuries.
- Safety performance in the Western Australian mineral industry 2020-21 - accident and injury statistics
Place Of Burial
Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth, WA (Cremated)
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Single
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Other Information
One of three females on the Memorial. (See Galia Rivka BERCOVICH and Fiona STEVENS).
https://www.watoday.com.au/business/workplace/work-to-resume-gradually-at-big-bell-gold-mine-in-wake-of-young-worker-s-death-20201217-p56oeq.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-29/perth-funeral-for-miner-paige-counsell-killed-at-big-bell-site/13018062
