Hydraulic lifting machinery tipped over and killed a resources employee. Authorities recently investigated how an all-terrain telehandler tipped over and fatally struck an untrained worker at...
Category - Dropped objects
Mine equipment collapsed onto and killed a worker. Authorities recently examined how a conveyor fatally struck a resources crew member on 15 April 2024 at an undisclosed coal operation. “A...
A loose wire spool unexpectedly toppled, fatally crushing an employee. Authorities recently investigated how a 2.3 metre wide cable drum detached from two steel stands and killed a worker at an...
Two truck employees became crushed under extremely heavy loads. Authorities recently investigated two cases where a heavy vehicle cab and bundle of steel pinned workers. The first incident involved a...
A structure unexpectedly fell onto a resources employee. Authorities recently investigated a collapse at an undisclosed Queensland coal operation. A pick and carry crane tried to relocate roof...
A mineral producer reallocated occupational health and wellbeing responsibilities prior to a deadly subterranean collapse. Victory Minerals recently confirmed it shifted safety compliance ahead of...
An employee passed away after a subterranean operation caved in. Authorities are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of a crew member at Victory Minerals’ Mount Clear mine...
Unsecured heavy vehicle parts slid off a trailer and rolled away. Authorities recently investigated how a 200 kilo drill head, and 2.7-tonne tyre and rim, unexpectedly exited a truck on the way to an...
Failing to hold objects without dropping them could have helped launch a heavy vehicle part into the air. Authorities are investigating how a 2.5-tonne haul truck wheel rim separated from the tyre...
A contracting company was penalised for almost sealing a worker’s fate. An employee was wrongly engulfed in soil, injured and traumatised. This is the conclusion authorities reached. One worker...
Criminally linked employees are suspected of using explosives to attack a mining operation. Authorities are investigating why a group of workers detonated part of Poderosa’s BESS La Morena...
Resources executives will face no further public scrutiny over an underground fatality. Authorities recently dropped charges against four managers over an underground electrician who died at Fitzroy...
