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Safety concerns held before Middlemount tragedy

Union inspectors' planned trip was to be the day after the fatal incident.

Union safety inspectors had planned a trip to the mine to investigate safety concerns.

Union safety inspectors had planned a trip to the mine to investigate safety concerns.

Those union inspectors will instead be conducting their own investigation into the June 26 incident at the Yancoal and Peabody Energy-owned Middlemount pulverised coal injection mine that led to Routledge's...

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