Mining

How to use the Mining dashboard

The Mining dashboard brings together data on work-related fatalities and compensation claims. Use the dashboard to learn about fatal incidents including whether vehicles such as trucks or utes were involved. Understand the circumstances (such as falls from a height, being hit by moving objects, and body stressing including manual handling), nature, and bodily location of work-related injuries (such as upper limbs including hands). See data for: Coal mining; Oil and gas extraction; Metal ore mining; Non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying; and Exploration and other mining support sectors.

To use the dashboard:

• Select 'Pages' to access the data.
• Apply filters to change the timeframe or claim type (from serious to other claims), or to filter by variables such as age group, sex or location (state or territory).
• Click inside the charts to cross filter other charts on the page (hold 'Ctrl' to select more than one bar).
• View the interactive dashboard help video or dashboard user guide.

To see how Mining compares with other industries go to the Work-related fatalities dashboard or Workers' compensation dashboard. Visit the Safe Work Australia website for Mining WHS guidance.

Note: The dashboard provides counts, frequency rates, median cost and time lost data. There is a break in series for work-related injury frequency and incident rates from 2021-22. Learn more about the data on the Work-related fatalities data and Workers' compensation data pages.