Drones may soon add additional capacity to the Royal Flying Doctor Service with the service examining the use of drones & UAVs to assist with surveying remote aeroplane landing runways and even...
Category - MINING HAZARDS
This section covers hazards associated with surface and underground mining.
Two Zimbabwean mine workers have plummeted to their death after a mine hoist failed and fell into a 135-metre deep shaft. The mining incident occurred in the Magwe region of Zimbabwe. Chief Inspector...
Rio Tinto’s $2.6 billion investment in the Koodaideri replacement mine will feature intelligent mining activities through adoption of high technology automated mining equipment. Ultimately, Rio...
The Beaconsfield mine disaster in Australia could have had more tragic outcomes. But the legacy of the disaster is the highly relevant lessons learned that are applied today to prevent a re...
A mining regulator has places graders in the spotlight following reports of a number of incidents associated with the failure of grader stub axles. In the range of mining safety incidents, both drive...
Articulated dump truck incidents occur across the mining and quarrying industries with alarming regularity. Some of those incidents are fatalities. This week a regulator reported that ‘an...
The Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines recently released an urgent Safety Newsflash concerning a failure of electrical short circuit protection on diesel-powered plant used in...
50 mine workers are believed to have died following a mudslide at a jade mine in the northern part of Myanmar. An MP from the region has told media sources that more than “50 people are...
In an unprecedented decision, the Chinese Government has moved to ban labour hire in the Chinese mining industry citing issues with safety as a primary concern for the ban. The National Coal Mine...
A light vehicle incident at a NSW mine has highlighted risks from equipment protruding from vehicles. A light vehicle hit a drill steel protruding from a jumbo drilling rig that was parked in the...
A retired Queensland miner has told a black lung forum that he was disappointed that a mining company-appointed doctors — who told him he had bronchitis — did not know how to read chest X-rays...
Images have been released today showing the severity of the haul truck incident at the Mount Arthur as reported by AMSJ last week. According to the regulator the haul truck rolled onto its side at an...
