Belmore Bulk Material Pty Ltd and Timothy Searle charged over Jacks Quarry death

North Queensland quarry bosses are yet to receive the findings of four-day hearing into the 2018 death of worker Adam Malone. Find out the next steps.

A quarry operator and its senior manager will wait until the new year to receive a magistrate’s findings on the death of worker Adam Malone, who was pinned under the cab of an articulated dump truck at Jacks Quarry in 2018.

Belmore Bulk Material Pty Ltd and site senior executive Timothy Searle faced Bowen Magistrates Court last week charged with serious breaches of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

Workplace Health and Safety prosecutors called 14 witnesses for a four-day hearing after charging the operator and senior manager with a total of five counts of failing to discharge a health and safety obligation at the Collinsville site.

At the conclusion of the hearing on Thursday, November 18, Magistrate James Morton reserved his findings for a date to be fixed.

Mr Morton will consider written submissions from the defence and prosecution up until January 28, 2022, before setting a date for a decision.

Adam Malone died when he was pinned under a dump truck at Jacks Quarry near Collinsville.

Mr Malone, 25, had been operating the articulated dump truck at Jacks Quarry near Collinsville on July 29, 2018 with his last load of the day when it hit an embankment and turned over on a haul road, partially pinning him under the cab.

It is understood he lost control of the vehicle as it moved fully loaded down the access ramp.

Jacks Quarry south of Collinsville. Picture: State of Queensland (Department of Resources)

He later died of his injuries. The incident prompted a number of safety alerts to be issued.

Belmore Bulk Material Pty Ltd is facing two counts of failing to discharge a health and safety obligation, while Mr Searle is facing three counts of the same charge.

Originally published as Belmore Bulk Material Pty Ltd and Timothy Searle charged over Jacks Quarry death