Authorities investigated how light machinery overturned and crushed an employee. WorkSafe officials recently examined what circumstances led to a 2.7 tonne utility compactor falling off a tilt tray...
Category - MINING HAZARDS
This section covers hazards associated with surface and underground mining.
A resources decision-maker suffered fatal consequences after a momentary lapse of judgement. A mine manager recently passed away from an abrupt machine accident at the Wooten operation, 258km...
A special investigator from one of the nation’s most high-profile mine disasters wants employers to remove dangerous conditions. Michael Quinlan believes there are many lessons from a recent...
Mining operators should be severely punished for multiple remote worker fatalities, an advocate said. Management has no excuse for a rock fall killing a drilling contractor at Gold Fields’ St...
A mineral producer is gradually returning to businesses as usual, following a devastating mine fatality. Gold Fields recently confirmed operations have partially resumed at its St Ives mine, 80km...
Authorities revealed remote resources employees were among the industry’s latest fatalities. The Western Australian Police Force recently confirmed a MACA employee who died at Capricorn...
An underground employee passed away after accidentally coming into contact with voltage. A roof bolter recently died from electrocution at Blackhawk Mining’s Kanawha Eagle Coal Mine, about 36km...
A mine employee was crushed because he was neither paying attention nor practising workplace safety, investigators found. An underground shift worker was hospitalised after being pinned between a rib...
A multinational resources producer was widely criticised for failing to provide a safe work environment. A Peabody Energy entity was recently penalised after management did not stop work after...
A resources employee became hospitalised after multiple heavy vehicles crushed him. A driver was recently pinned between a stationary fuel truck and front-end wheel loader at an undisclosed...
Mineral producers should order workers to cease hazardous and unlawful indicator use, an industry group said. Politely signalling for other drivers to overtake could be illegal and, in some cases...
A multinational resources producer should be prosecuted for at least one workplace fatality in Queensland’s Central Highlands region, an industry group urged. The State Office of the Work...
