The NSW mine safety regulator has been notified of a mining incident that occurred on 13 April 2020 at BHP Mount Arthur Mine near Muswellbrook in NSW. The Regulator said that a haul truck was...
Category - MINING INCIDENTS AND ALERTS
The Queensland Mining Safety Regulator has advised of a serious incident that resulted in a mineworker being airlifted to a Brisbane hospital with a range of serious injuries. The report documents...
A catastrophic paste wall failure in a drive at the top of a stope could have claimed lives of mineworkers after they were forced to climb into the bucket of a bogger and radio to be rescued. The...
Another mineworker has been crushed by a hydraulic staircase on a dozer after regulators found that a range of issues associated with wiring modifications that resulted in an unexpected staircase...
Family and friends have paid tribute to a Monadelphous Group (ASX: MND) engineering workshop employee who was killed in a workplace accident in Kalgoorlie at the weekend. 26-year-old Hayden Grubb...
A continuous miner has been buried during work in a development panel at a NSW underground coal mine in significant-high potential incident that left other mineworkers scrambling for their lives...
The NSW Resources Regulator has released details of a February 2020 incident that occurred at the Peabody Energy Wilpinjong Coal mine where an operator fell from the third or fourth step of the lower...
An incident involving a mining dozer at a New South Wales mine this past week has once again re-inforced the risks of operating dozers around bodies of water. A range of high potential past incidents...
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) told media this morning that the loader a mineworker was operating at the Henty mine in Tasmania fell 10-15 metres into a void as the roadway opened up. National...
Pybar mining has confirmed the worst fears held by the mining industry acknowledging that the trapped miner has passed away. Efforts will now focus on recovery operations at the Henty mine. In a...
Police have reported this morning that it is highly unlikely that the miner at the centre of the Henty mine collapse in Tamsmania has survived and that a recovery operation could take some time...
The NSW Regulator has released details of a Caterpillar 775D service truck that overturned on a service ramp due to gripping on a dry line. The NSW regulator said that “the 775D was descending...
