Recent figures from the government show that mining has the highest rate of deaths of any industry in the country. But with salaries more than double the national average, and another 70,000 workers needed by 2015 to meet the current boom, many new, inexperienced men are being drawn to one of the world's most dangerous jobs. In this heart-wrenching documentary Sharon Mascall meets a mine-worker who speaks out about breaches in safety standards in his own mine, the wife of a miner whose death is still under investigation, the trade union man charged with looking after the memorial to miners killed underground. [refers to BHP Billiton, Perilya]