"life is too short not to have a banana suit on a plane"

15 miners from Barminco and Hahn Electrical Contracting have been fired for having a bit of fun to get them going again so they didn't lose momentum on the job at 2:30am.

The workers did the "Harlem Shake" - a viral dance craze, which they filmed and then posted on you tube. One of the sacked miners claims no safety regulations were breached, and a second says no-one was endangered in the stunt at Agnew gold mine.

The miners involved were wearing helmets, lamps, and glasses and had oxygen on hand, but they had removed their long-sleeve shirts.

In their letter of dismissal, the company not only sacked the workers, but banned them for life.

The incident comes as the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) in the US is looking at a "Harlem Shake" incident on board a domestic flight involving a university ultimate frisbee team - where despite the students being given permission from the flight crew to perform the Shake in costumes and recruit fellow passengers using the PA system, they are still being investigated.

The decision makers at Barminco and Hahn Electrical, and the investigators from the FFA might do well to listen carefully to the words of one YouTube user who said "life is too short not to have a banana suit on a plane"