Tas mining deaths 'entirely avoidable'

By Ethan James
Updated June 18 2021 - 3:24pm, first published 3:21pm
A coroner says mining at Mt Lyell had come at a human cost, including 42 deaths in 1912.
A coroner says mining at Mt Lyell had come at a human cost, including 42 deaths in 1912.

An "almost perfect storm" of poor safety practices and poor equipment were to blame for the deaths of two miners on Tasmania's west coast eight years ago, a coroner has ruled.

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