Two "aggressive" guard dogs threatened a pump contractor at a Queensland property one week before a meter reader was mauled to death at the same address, an inquest has heard.

Kane Minion, 42, was working for Energy Queensland in December 2022 when he was killed by the dogs on a property at Greenbank in Logan.

The Coroners Court, sitting in Southport on the Gold Coast this week, has been tasked with examining the circumstances surrounding Mr Minion's death.

The inquest will also look at the adequacy of meter-reading procedures and the availability of remote meter-reading technologies.

The court on Monday heard four dogs lived at the address, including a bandog bull-mastiff cross named Dozer and a bull-mastiff Rhodesian ridgeback cross named Scooby.

Scooby and Dozer were euthanised fol

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