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Category - MINING HAZARDS
This section covers hazards associated with surface and underground mining.
The NSW Resources Regulator will lead a causal investigation into a mine gas incident at Metropolitan Coal Mine, where workers were withdrawn from the underground coal mine after carbon dioxide and...
Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific has been fined $250K and ordered to pay costs of around $30K after a guilty plea in the Perth Magistrates Court. The fine was related to the EWP death of 28-year-old Joshua...
An underground fire during a shift change at a Canadian gold mine was extinguished without injuries the mine owners have said. The mine’s owner Goldcorp said that at approximately 6:00 pm on...
Australians suffer around 50 000 eye injuries every year even though many of them were wearing eye protection at the time of their injury. Impact resistant safety glasses can protect users from...
When Kiwi rugby player Jordan Taurima was killed at a worksite at Mount Isa Mines in 2013, no-one could have believed it. He, his wife and three sons were new to the area and they were keen to make a...
‘Night owls’ – those who go to bed late and then get up later – have significantly lower functional connectivity in the brain, slower reaction times, and may struggle with a standard 9-5 workday...
An excavator has rolled over onto its side in an NSW open cut. According to the regulator’s report, the excavator rollover occurred in a dozer push area after a track went over a 0.5 metre to 1...
Fortescue has announced the establishment of an autonomous vehicle research and development centre based in Karratha, Western Australia. The aim of the centre is to explore opportunities for the...
A NSW Court has blasted Whitehaven Coal with a $38.5K fine following a 2016 blast that went wrong. The NSW Land and Environment Court convicted and fined Whitehaven Coal Mining Limited $38,500 after...
Australian miners can avert catastrophic tailings dam collapses by using intelligence generated from satellite imagery and advanced processing techniques to monitor mine sites, thanks to a ground...
The DMIRS have issued a significant incident report involving the collapse of a stacker conveyor at a site believed to be resulting from corrosion damage. We stress that the DMIRS investigation is...
