There were 24 mining fatalities in the United States of America in 2019, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reports. This is the fewest annual fatalities ever recorded, and only the fifth year in MSHA’s 43-year history that mining...
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Last week we reported a light vehicle incident at the Glencore Ravensworth mine. The NSW Resources Regulator has released preliminary information on the Ravensworth light vehicle incident and an...
The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has welcomed the release of the Brady Review into Mining and Quarrying fatalities and two University of Queensland expert legal assessments of coal mining and...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Product Safety Australia has announced a recall of Performax F-250 & F-350 Trucks Years 2014-2016. The recall stems from premature...
A major report into Queensland mining fatalities released yesterday warns that more workers will die unless the industry comprehensively changes its approach to safety. The Brady Review of all fatal...
OPINION …Like many others who have witnessed the increasing rate of fatalities in the Queensland mining industry, today I eagerly awaited the delivery of a report entitled Review of all fatal...
A report commissioned by the Queensland Government has confirmed that mineworkers will continue to die in Queensland at a rate of twelve every five years unless a major overhaul on safety is...
Mining communities in Pilbara region of Western Australia are preparing for the first tropical cyclone of the year Tropical cyclone Damien is likely to bear down on the Western Australian coast...
The New South Wales Resources Regulator has released a document detailing a range of geotechnical failures in high walls, low walls and dumps. The regulator said in its document (see link below) that...
Work has progressed slowly on recovery of Tasmanian miner Cameron Goss from Henty Gold Mine. Pybar Mining Services confirmed today that recovery operations at Henty Gold Mine continued through the...
The Miners’ Union has welcomed the introduction of a Bill to Queensland Parliament today to extend industrial manslaughter laws to the state’s mining industry. The new legislation would create a...
Queensland lawyers have welcomed the new Queensland mine health and safety laws. Maurice Blackburn State Managing Principal Rod Hodgson has welcomed the introduction of industrial manslaughter laws...
The Queensland Parliament has heard that the Minister responsible for mine safety, Dr Anthony Lynham failed to use existing powers to investigate fatal mining accidents. In an address to Queensland...