Former coal worker Donald Welch is suing Anglo Coal and Workpac after working a 75-hour week and, the afternoon following an overnight shift, crashing his car. The 50-year-old, who had finished his...
Tag - ACCIDENT
A worker has reportedly sustained serious leg injuries on Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia from an accident involving a crane. According to the ABC, the worker’s legs were...
Last week, Turkey’s Parliament finally approved the ILO Convention 176 on safety and health in mines after a year that saw over 300 Turkish mine workers perish in preventable mine disasters. Global...
The Queensland Mines Inspectorate (QMI) has praised the prompt action of co-workers who went to the rescue of an electrician who became trapped between a coal rib and a maingate drive in a Queensland...
A devastating crash between a car and a bus carrying mine workers in Western Australia’s Goldfields has resulted in the death of a mother, her two small children and her baby boy. According to...
The driver of a four wheel drive had a lucky escape after a train carrying manganese ploughed into his vehicle near Katherine in the Northern Territory. According to the NT News, the train was...
The removal of a brake from road-rail front guidance equipment was found to be one of the primary causes of an accident that led to the death of a rail worker at Haig on the Goldfields of Western...
A mine worker sustained leg injuries in an underground incident that occurred last Friday at the Oaky Creek mine near Tieri in Central Queensland. The worker was bought to the surface four hours...
Beaconsfield mine collapse survivor, Todd Russell, will be special guest speaker at a series of breakfast seminars being held throughout regional Queensland for Safe Work Month in October. Mr Russell...
