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Civil charges still may be laid The father of a man killed in an underground explosion at the Olympic Dam mine last year said he would consider seeking civil charges against BHP Billiton. The company had recently been charged with three counts of breaching the Occupational Health and Safety and Welfare Act following the death of Roxby Downs resident Karl Eibl. “We’re thinking about laying civil charges against the company and if we win the case we’ll use the money to go after the people responsible,”
Bob Eibl said. Bob Eibl said the fines which BHP Billiton faces were like ‘a cup of coffee’ to the company and he thought the managers of the mine should be charged with criminal negligence. The company faced fines up to $300,000 if found guilty. “It felt pretty good to see charges filed against the company but the charges look like they will amount to only small fines. “I believe one of the guys involved can’t go back underground. This incident ruined a lot of
lives, not just my son's,” he said. Mr Eibl senior said he was distressed by the lack of information and co-operation from both SafeWorkSA and BHP Billiton following his son’s death. In an attempt to obtain more information Mr Eibl lodged a Freedom of Information request with SafeWork SA to get a copy of the report into the incident. “We feel terrible, absolutely shocking because we’ve been told virtually nothing by BHP Billiton or SafeWorkSA,” he said.
A S a f e Wo r k S A spokeswoman said it was procedure not to issue findings when legal action was pending. “If there is no proposed legal action after an investigation is completed, the family is given the factual report on request,” she said. It has been nearly a year since the accident and Mr Eibl has only just received the coroner’s report, according to an article in The Advertiser on Wednesday, May 31. The Coronial investigation mentioned in The Advertiser ’s article stated Karl Eibl
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was killed on July 19, 2005, when explosives he was laying were accidentally triggered. The Advertiser article stated mine management told the Eibl family there was supposed to be a safe distance of 40metres between Mr Eibl and the men drilling – a miscalculation meant there was only a distance of about two metres. Mr Eibl said his attempts to investigate safety within the mine had been frustrated. “We wanted to put a post-graduate PhD student into the Olympic Dam mine to investigate
Mission accomplished was the resounding message following an Arid Recovery working bee on Sunday, May 28. More than 30 volunteers came along to do maintenance work at the site and complete a number of projects, including mounting a magnificent Wedge Tailed Eagle sculpture at the front entrance. Other works included replacing sand which had shifted at the hide – a shelter used at dusk to observe nocturnal mammals like bettongs and hopping mice eating at dusk. Sand was also replaced over the tunnel entrances to the viewing boxes alongside the hide. A conveyor belt used to stop bilbies digging into control sites was shifted onto a dune bordering the second expansion control site where the previous belt had deteriorated. Arid Recovery media officer Chris Schultz said moving the belts was a difficult task. “It’s important to keep the reintroduced animals out of the second expansion control site.
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