Central Queensland bureaucrats proposed pausing coal production when medical professionals are in short supply. Isaac Regional Council (IRC) recently raised the prospect of halting all mining...
Category - MINING INCIDENTS AND ALERTS
A truck carrying hazardous chemicals burst into flames and shrapnel on an Outback road. Authorities are investigating how a road train carrying a mine blasting substance ignited and exploded along...
Officials were urged to investigate why flammable fossil fuels allegedly escaped containment in the Western Downs region. Resources Safety and Health Queensland recently received reports of multiple...
Authorities have released a reenactment of a resources employee being pinned under heavy equipment. A recent video illustrates the terrifying moment a male worker became trapped under a loader cab...
A multinational mineral producer will examine how a coal employee became hurt on the job. Authorities are trying to determine circumstances surrounding a female worker at South32’s Dendrobium...
Heavy mobile equipment (HME) operators crashed into and severely damaged multiple light vehicles at Queensland mines. Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) recently investigated two high...
A heavy vehicle operator collided with much smaller machinery at an undisclosed open-cut coal operation. A dump truck driver recently became unable to see a dozer parked behind him next to a windrow...
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...
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...
Colleagues and loved ones paused to remember a remote employee who died in a horrific heavy vehicle accident. MACA workers, family and friends recently mourned the sudden loss of utility vehicle...
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...
