Strahan Cemetery Tasmania - Photo Find a Grave
Shane “Looty” HAMILL
Age at Death45
Date Of Death26 June 2000
Place Of BirthStrahan, Tasmania, Australia
OccupationJumbo Drill Operator
ChildrenTwo children.
Three miners trapped in West Australian gold mine. World Socialist Web Site. Celeste Lopez 1 July 2000
Coroner absolves company of blame for West Australian miners’ deaths. By Ben Nichols 15 August 2001. World Socialist Web Site
Bronzewing mine site, Western Australia
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Bronzewing GM, via Leinster, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Troy Terrence WOODARD, 26, Timothy Lee BELL, 21, and father-of-two Shane HAMILL, 45, died of asphyxiation when they were trapped 400m underground when 18,000 cubic metres of sand-slurry, sludge, mud and rock broke through a storage area. Rescue teams estimate that the slurry poured 200 metres down a decline ramp, taking with it huge amounts of debris and machinery.
Place Of Burial
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
District
Laverton
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Phillip Charles 'Dippa' HAMILL (1928-1985)
Mother
Pauline Margaret CRANE (1931-2017)
