An underground mine employee passed away after machinery slipped and became covered in a chemical mixture. An excavator recently slid over an...
Equipment slides and fatally buries worker
A multinational mining company was sought to compensate an employee who suffered a respiratory injury at work. Kylie Anne Bresnehan recently sued Rio Tinto and...
A metal bar flew across a work area and pierced through heavy equipment. Authorities recently investigated how a hydraulic porta pack propelled a rod with so...
Earth material became loose and caused part of a heavy vehicle to drop without notice. A highwall section recently collapsed, sending a large volume of rocks...
Building material shattered and fatally struck a worker who was inside a structure several metres away. A team leader died from shrapnel that became airborne...
In our industry, dust has always been an issue. Its presence has always been a huge problem, whether it comes from roads, transfer points, mining processes, or cement processes, and dealing with it...
A former employee accused a colleague of endangering her life with a blade at a major mining operation. Anneka Truter claims a coworker raped her at knifepoint at CITIC Pacific Mining’s Sino...
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A foreign mining company celebrated the outcome of smart equipment testing at a coal operation. A Chinese state-run subsidiary of Shendong Coal recently declared its intelligent mining technology is...
A mining magnate will transition away from diesel at multiple operations. Gina Rinehart’s Atlas Iron recently approved converting its light vehicle fleet to electric power. The entity owned by...
A multinational resources company paid for the world’s first equipment that frees workers trapped beneath the surface. Anglo American recently invested $2.3 million in the Queensland Mines...
A mining services company will introduce a novel wireless solution to track employees who were close to infected individuals. Bluetooth contact tracing technology will be rolled out for the first...
Are you confident your operator workforce would respond correctly in an emergency event? Most managers over-estimate the effectiveness of classroom and on-iron training. Immersive...
A mining services company confessed it should have done more to protect one heavy vehicle operator from being fatally crushed. VDM Engineering and director David Van De Meeberg recently pleaded...
A heavy vehicle company accepted blame for a low paid employee passing away while he was still learning on-the-job. Marshall Lethlean Industries was recently convicted and fined $600,000 after one of...
The Sago Mine disaster is one of the world’s most tragic mine disasters. Twenty-nine coal miners went underground at International Coal Group’s Sago Mine near Buckhannon in Upshur County, West...
Hammersley Chemicals is a progressive company that is continually researching and finding ways to create products that offer the end user a more responsible choice when it comes to safety and the...
A multinational resources company has confessed to providing a substandard environment to employees. Rio Tinto confirmed 28.2 per cent of females and 6.7 per cent of males recently experienced sexual...
