Mining union calls mining company's rescue response to fatal incident "unacceptable"

The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union called a Queensland mining company’s response to a fatal accident at Bowen’s Basin “unacceptably” slow. 

Mining union spokesperson Steve Smyth says emergency services travelled three hours from Mackay to reach the miner, who died at the scene.

The incident is the fifth Queensland mining death in the past 12 months, with three of them in coal.