On 21 October 1966, a roof with an estimated weight of 200 tons collapsed at the Wyee mine. Five miners died in the incident.
Industrial - Wyee State mine
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Information Sources
Parliament of New South Wales, Hansard Legislative Assembly: Mines rescue bill, 12 April 1994, p 1070
Pitzer CJ, New thinking on disasters the link between safety culture and risk taking, 1997, p 1, website viewed 20 July 2011