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...
Category - MINING INCIDENTS AND ALERTS
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...
2019 was a horrific year of fatal mining accidents for the Queensland mining industry. There has been a range of fatal accidents as well as a plethora of high potential incidents that have left mine...
A rockfall at a NSW underground metalliferous mine trapped a loader and a light vehicle with a worker inside the vehicle. According to the NSW Mine Safety Regulator “The worker first heard...
A 21-year-old US mineworker has been fatally injured during conveyor belt repairs while removing a splice pin from a belt just two days before Christmas. The incident occurred at the Murray Energy...
The ATSB has released an investigation report into a Rio Tinto mining train accident that occurred at Weipa on the 22 September 2019. The ATSB says that an empty bauxite mining train was travelling...
