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...
Category - MINING INCIDENTS AND ALERTS
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...
An Asia-headquartered conglomerate postponed work at one operation after an employee passed away. CITIC Pacific Mining confirmed the worker died at the Sino Iron Mine, about 90km southwest of...
Workmates and loved ones are mourning the loss of an underground coal mine employee who died on the job. Mastermyne Group confirmed the worker became fatally injured at Sojitz Corporation’s...
A modern resources company postponed one of its underground operations after a worker died. Machinery fatally injured one Byrnecut Group employee at OZ Minerals’ Prominent Hill Copper, Silver...
The NSW Resources Regulator has recently received two notifications where tracked utility type vehicles have lost motion control and rolled, uncontrolled, down a gradient. Figure 2 Morooka MST-3000VD...
The dump truck incident on an open cut coal mine has been reported to the NSW Resources Regulator. The operator of a dump truck smelled smoke in the cabin, activated the emergency stop button and...
The NSW Resources Regulator has reported a roof fall incident at an underground coal mine. According to the report, a roof fall, approximately six metres long, measuring the full width of the drive...
The NSW Resources Regulator has published an investigation report into a collision between an excavator and a dozer at Maules Creek Mine on 26 May 2021. Figure 2 According to the report, a dozer was...
figure 1 Queensland Coal Inspectorate has issued a safety notice to draw attention to the serious tyre failure incident. A Cat 795F rear dump was being loaded by a rope shovel when a basalt rock...
