Ted Hammond is one of the 150 Mount Isa Mines workers who went to work one day and never came home.
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With a push for a Mount Isa Miners Memorial by 2023, Mr Hammond would be one of the names on that memorial. His story is submitted by his granddaughter Toni Crawford, who affectionately called him "Umpires", and is as remembered by members of his family.
At the end of the Mount Isa Lead Mine night shift, on June 28 1974, one single tag was left hanging on the board. It belonged to Ted Hammond.
Hammond was a well known and popular worker who moved up north from Warwick with his wife Olive.
They had made a good life together in the North West raising a family and he had plenty of experience in mining both at Mary Kathleen and Mount Isa.
One of the workers recalls that at the time of the accident Ted was working as a miscellaneous "mucker" who had many jobs. He also worked as a Production Mucker in the sublevel caves and that he may have also been a locomotive driver too.
That last fateful morning he said what no-one realised would be his last goodbye to his wife as he went off to work another day underground, shifting ore using a Wagner ST2 Underground Loader.
When he didn't return at the end of the shift, his workmates went back down the mine to look for him. Ted was working on levels 11-13.
While going down level 11 on an incline the brakes failed and blew out.
There was evidence along the sides of the levels that he tried to slow it down by driving it up the wall but his attempts failed to slow it.
Ted was very experienced but with no brakes and no engine power, the only stop was at the bottom. At the bottom he hit a raised concrete floor where a workshop was being built.
With no seatbelt, the force catapulted him out of the machine. His hard hat came off and he hit the left-hand side of his head on the post of the canopy as he was catapulted out. His work mates found him lying unconscious on the ground.
Ted was admitted to Mount Isa Base Hospital where they operated on him. He regained consciousness but he died five days later during a second surgery from blot clots sustained on the left side of his head.
His funeral was held at the Good Shepherd Church then in Camooweal Street.
Toni said her mother recalled that people were standing outside as the church was too full.
"He was respected, well liked and loved by so many," Toni said.
"My Nan asked for an inquest into his death as the Life Insurance company wouldn't pay out his policy. The life insurance company believed that Umpies had committed suicide. My Nan got a lawyer who took on her case."
At an open inquest Mount Isa Mines admitted fault as the brakes on the machine that he was operating were faulty and they went on to sue the company that built the ST2 machine.
A legacy of his accident and subsequent death was a change to the braking system used to all the underground units.
When he died he left behind a wife aged 42 years, a daughter aged 22 , another daughter aged 18, a granddaughter (Toni) aged four, two grandsons aged 21 months and four months and two son in laws.
He never got to meet his other two grandsons nor his great-grand children. His wife left Mount Isa in 1975 and moved to Brisbane.
She couldn't cope with seeing the smoke stack, Toni said.
"Umpies is buried in the Mount Isa Lawn Cemetery in the Catholic section. My Nan's ashes are also buried in the same grave," she said.
She said her grandfather made a valuable contribution towards the prosperity of the mine but also to his community in a volunteering capacity, as a sportsman and as a businessman.
"A Mount Isa Miners' Memorial in the town where my grandfather lived, loved, worked, played, put down roots and heartbreakingly lost his life from injuries sustained while working in the lead mine, is timely. He and the other 149 who tragically lost their lives and never came home from work must be honoured for the ultimate sacrifice they made," she said.
"Not a day goes by when my Umpies is not in my thoughts. I still tear up when I think about him some 47 years later."