A multinational resources company will pay for an external employee’s severe workplace injury. BHP was fined years after a metal shard struck a maintenance worker at the Mount Whaleback Mine...
Category - MINING INCIDENTS AND ALERTS
An employee suffered severe injuries after material handling equipment caught on fire at an underground operation. One Newcrest Mining worker received serious burns when his LH621 Sandvik loader...
Remote employees became infected with a highly contagious disease at multiple mining operations. Newmont Corporation and South32 reported numerous fly-in fly-out (FIFO) workers recently tested...
Two resources workers were physically confined after discovered to be infected. South32 confirmed two workers tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19) at the Groote Eylandt Mine, about 640km west of...
Mine employees had no choice but to physically separate themselves from colleagues due to a growing number of infections at one coal operation. At least 17 workers have tested positive to coronavirus...
An exploration and water boring company will pay after a team member died from a serious injury more than two years ago. Orbit Drilling recently pleaded guilty to failing to provide and maintain a...
An unstable structure interrupted the lives of two underground coal operation employees. Authorities recently investigated a roof collapse at Centennial Coal’s Clarence Colliery, about 130km...
A mining services company temporarily shut down at least one operation in Queensland’s Central Highlands region. A subsidiary of NRW Holdings recently stopped work due to floods and severe weather...
An underground mine employee from northwest Queensland was treated for injury after machinery became caught on his jewellery. A jumbo operator needed several stitches to his hand after exiting a...
Wet weather forced at least two resources operations to temporarily shut down and remove their workers across Queensland. Heavy rains and floods have temporarily closed Kestrel Coal Resources’s...
Work practices will be examined after a second coal operation employee died in less than two years. Investigators will probe how effectively the Curragh Mine team worked together before a night-shift...
Authorities are investigating the latest workplace death at a Central Queensland coal operation. Queensland Police, the State Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and more want to know...
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