Coal production at Glencore’s Oaky Creek remained suspended today after the accident last week which killed a 51-year-old worker and injured a second man.

The Meikleville Hill man who died in the October 2 incident has been named publicly as father-of-four Frank Thomas.

His wife Julie told News Ltd he was an amazing father and a beautiful, loving husband. “It’s an enormous loss,” Mrs Thomas said.

Chief executive officer of Glencore’s coal business in Australia Ian Cribb last week described the incident as devastating for the entire Oaky Creek workforce.

It occurred when the two workers were carrying out maintenance works, Glencore said.

Resources Safety and Health Queensland issued a directive to isolate the incident scene while investigations got underway.

Mr Thomas’s death at Oaky Creek, 90km north-west of Emerald, brought the number of people killed on Queensland mine sites this year to four.

August saw two coalfields deaths, including Chris Schloss, 48, who was fatally injured when a pick and carry crane rolled at the QCoal Byerwen mine’s campsite.

This was followed three weeks later by the death of 56-year-old John Linwood in a vehicle collision at Byerwen mine.

Those deaths followed a fatal accident at BMA’s Saraji mine in January, when 27-year-old Luke O’Brien suffered significant crush injuries.

See below for an earlier report on the accident: