This is a list of industrial accidents and incidents that have resulted in environmental damage and/or has resulted in death or major injury that have occurred within the fossil fuel industry in Australia, in either the extraction, mining, processing or transporting phases. Oil tanker Oceanic Grandeur oil spill – 1970 Box Flat Mine explosion resulting in the death of 17 miners – 1972 Bulk coal tanker Sygna oil spill – 1974 Oil tanker Princess Anne Marie oil spill – 1975 Kianga coal mine explosion – 1975 Oil tanker World Encouragement oil spill – 1979 Appin coal mine explosion resulting in the death of 14 miners – 1979 Oil tanker Esso Gippsland oil spill – 1982 Moura coal mine roof fall and explosion – 1986 Collinsville Coal Roof collapse in mine shaft – 1988 Crude oil tanker Arthur Phillip oil spill – 1990 Oakleigh Number Three Colliery roof collapse resulting in death of a miner – 1990 Newlands coal mine gas explosion resulting in death of miner – 1990 Goonyella-Riverside coal mine outrush of coal and water – 1991 South Bulli coal mine incident resulting in the death of 3 miners – 1991 Western Main coal mine Pillar Collapse resulting in the death of 3 miners – 1991 Moura Open Cut coal mine incident resulting in death of 2 miners and serious injury to 2 others – 1993 Oil tanker Kirki oil spill – 1991 Moura coal mine explosion – 1994 Xstrata's Oaky Creek coal mine, miner lost his life when vehicle was driven over the edge of the excavation due to the substandard condition of the workplace – 1996 Laleham No1 coal mine, miner pinned between machinery resulting in death of miner – 1996 Gretley coal mine disaster resulting in the death of 4 miners – 1996 Newhill coal mine, rib collapse causing death to miner – 1997 BHP's Blackwater Open Cut coal mine, vehicle incident resulting in death of miner – 1997 Esso Longford gas plant explosion – 1998 Mobil Port Stanvac Refinery oil spill – 1999 Varanus Island Terminal oil spill – 1999 Oil tanker Laura D'Amato oil spill – 1999 Oil carrier Sylvan Arrow oil spill – 1999 Cook coal mine coal dislodged resulting in death of miner – 2000 Jellinabah Open Cut Coal incident causing severe crush injuries to miner – 2000 Oaky coal mine roof fall causing death to miner – 2000 Goonyella Riverside coal