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Longwall Operation | Potential fluid injection

Resources Safety & Health Queensland has reported an incident involving a worker been struck by a gauge and some fluid during maintenance. BHP forms heritage body with Banjima native title...

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Work struck by moving stairway

Resources Safety & Health Queensland has reported an incident where a worker was struck by a moving stairway on a truck. According to report, a coal mine worker was struck by a moving stairway on...

Failure to lockout

Safety Alert | Failure to Lockout

New Zealand’s MinEx has recently reported an incident that occurred due to failure to lockout. According to Minex, the workshop supervisor went to assist a fitter in diagnosing a bearing failure on a...

Worker sustains injury maintaining hydraulic breaker

New Zealand’s MinEx has recently released a safety alert highlighting the dangerous associated with maintenance of hydraulic rock breakers. According to Minex, a worker sustained a serious...

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Mobile plant contacting energised overhead powerlines

The Queensland Government has released a mining safety report detailing requirements for the prevention of mobile plant and equipment from entering exclusion zones of energised overhead powerlines...

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Dangerous incident at underground mine

NSW Resources Regulator has reported a dangerous incident that occurred in an underground mine. Workers in an underground coal mine smelt something burning and noticed that the gearbox output shaft...

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Extending the Shelf Life of N-95 Masks

US researchers have developed new designs for N95 face masks they say will extend the shelf life of the respiratory protection devices – one of the key pieces of personal protective equipment being...

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Mining community to honour fallen colleagues online

Queensland’s annual memorial for fallen mine workers will be live streamed online for the general public for the first time in 2020. Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said while this years’ service...