2012 saw Western Australian Mining go fatality-free — the first time in over a century of records. In fact, the industry fell only a few days short of making it two years in a row. Sadly there have been four fatalities since that golden run. Compare today’s performance to the figures from the '40s and '50s when the accident rate in the industry was around two fatalities per thousand employees per year. At current employment levels this would mean some 200 fatalities per year. Clearly, something good has happened.