Queensland Consolidated Acts

COAL MINING SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT 1999 - SECT 48C

48C Industrial manslaughter—employer

(1) An employer for a coal mine commits an offence if—

(a) a coal mine worker—

(i) dies in the course of carrying out work at the coal mine; or

(ii) is injured in the course of carrying out work at the coal mine and later dies; and

(b) the employer’s conduct causes the death of the coal mine worker; and

(c) the employer is negligent about causing the death of the coal mine worker by the conduct.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—

(a) for an individual—20 years imprisonment; or

(b) for a body corporate—100,000 penalty units.

Note—

See section 261 in relation to imputing to a body corporate particular conduct of officers, employees or agents of the body corporate.

(2) An offence against subsection (1) is a crime.