Queensland Mine and Quarry Safety Statistics with Injury and Worker Counts

Quarterly safety data for Queensland's mining and quarrying industries, collected by Resources Safety and Health Queensland. The data includes incident frequency rates for serious accidents, high potential incidents, and various injury types, as well as worker numbers by sector. It covers occurrences resulting in fatalities, permanent disability, or lost time, categorized by body part, hazard, equipment, and mechanism.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in serious accident frequency rates based on quarterly data by industry sector.
• Model risk factors for lost-time injuries based on categorized data for body part affected, hazards, and injury mechanism.
• Assess workforce exposure and safety performance by correlating worker numbers data with incident rates.
• Benchmark safety performance across different mining sectors based on the reported incident classifications.

Strengths

• Data is categorized by multiple dimensions including body part, hazard, equipment, and injury mechanism.
• Provides distinct metrics for incident frequency rates, worker numbers, and lost-time injury details.
• Sourced from the authoritative state regulator, Resources Safety and Health Queensland.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, being specific to Queensland.

Provenance

Source

Resources Safety and Health Queensland

Collection Method

Statistics collected from mines and quarry sites throughout Queensland.

Time Range

Quarterly data for the period specified in the dataset files.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 23:40:42.525719; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Queensland, Australia