State Coroner To Deliver Findings Into Insulation Installers' Deaths The families of the young men who died while installing foil insulation under a federal government scheme are one step closer to receiving answers. At 10am on Thursday State Coroner Michael Barnes will hand down his findings into the deaths of three Queensland installers between 2009 and 2010. Rueben Kelly Barnes, Matthew James Fuller and Mitchell Scott Sweeney died while installing insulation in homes in Cairns and the Sunshine Coast. The inquest examined the induction processes and training provided to the three young men, and Mr Barnes also questioned why metal staples, banned in New Zealand in 2007, were still being used in combination with electrically conductive insulation in Australia up to 2010. Part of the inquest focused on why it was not mandatory to turn off or isolate a home's power when insulation was being installed. Mr Barnes is also expected to comment on the proposed insulation safety legislation that was put in place by the state and federal governments. That includes a Queensland government regulatory assessment statement released in March 2012 and the federal government's Foil Insulation Safety Program. Colloquially known as the pink batts scheme, the commonwealth's $2.45 billion Home Insulation Program was shrouded in controversy before it was axed in April 2010. The deaths of four installers, three in Queensland, and more than 120 house fires and thousands of electrified roofs, have been linked to the failed scheme. Then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd publicly apologised to the families of the four men in 2010.