Talk about embarrassing – a crane has toppled over in front of a safety inspector at Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill mine construction site in the Pilbara of Western Australia. The incident...
Category - Injury Prevention
A mine worker has broken his foot 5 kilometres underground at the Dendrobium mine at Mount Kembla in New South Wales. According to the Illawarra Mercury the incident occurred this morning when a...
Two prohibition safety notices have been issued to Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill mine project in Western Australia. The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) issued the notices after concerns were...
Mine companies are not doing enough to prevent permanent injury to workers who operate high vibrating machinery, and are putting productivity targets before workers welfare, according to an expert in...
An incorrectly installed ladder led to a worker at an open cut coal mine sustaining spinal injuries when he fell from a grader, according to a new report from NSW Mines Safety. The report states that...
Inadequate procedures for the operation of a kibble led to the death of a worker at the CSA Cobar mine in March 2013, according to mine accident investigators. At around 4:20am on 16 March 2013 a...
