"At some stage during those activities Andrew had been bitten by the snake." According to an internal email from Billing to Ergon staff, Vaughan appeared to have died almost instantly and was unable to be revived when a search party of police, emergency workers and colleagues found him three hours later. "Andrew was working with another workmate and a contract backhoe operator clearing a track to get access to a pole for maintenance work to be carried out at a later time," Ergon executive Peter Billing told ABC radio. Vaughan became separated from colleagues in thick scrub at the remote site last Thursday and the alarm was raised when he ceased responding to radio and phone contact.
An autopsy had determined that the 57-year-old died from a taipan bite, his employer Ergon Energy said. Andrew Vaughan's body was found by a search party last week after he went missing while checking power lines in dense bushland near Yeppoon, 700 kilometres (430 miles) north of Brisbane. A man has died in Australia after being bitten by one of the world's most venomous snakes - a rare fatality despite the country being home to the planet's 10 deadliest species.
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