A contracting company was penalised for almost sealing a worker’s fate. An employee was wrongly engulfed in soil, injured and traumatised. This is the conclusion authorities reached. One worker...
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An employee died after earthmoving machinery crushed his body. A maintenance worker recently passed away while replacing a worn-out main hydraulic pressure hose. The individual began by releasing...
MinEX NZ has released a safety alert regarding a potential hydraulic injection injury. A mobile plant operator and a fellow worker were in the process of starting the plant when a small oil leak was...
MinEX NZ has released a safety alert regarding a worker who walked behind the operating loader. According to the safety alert, a loader completed loading a truck with gravel, after which, the truck...
MinEx has reported an incident regarding a production worker had significant finger injury while using core-drill in Humes – Hornby manufacturing (Christchurch). According to the report, a production...
MinEx NZ has reported an incident that a worker has been seriously injured after he fell from a dump truck. According to the report, after finishing his shift, a worker exited his dump truck for the...
MinEx NZ has published a safety alert of an articulated dump truck incident. According to the report that a loaded articulated dump truck was on a ramp leaving the pit as the operator attempted to...
Six highly experienced extractives industry practitioners have been appointed for three year terms to the New Zealand Mining Board of Examiners. The six are returning members Michelle Crompton...
MinEx NZ has published a safety alert of a fire loader accident. According to reports, a loader operator noticed smoke while in the cab of a loader. Looking behind him, he saw flames behind the cab...
A failure to adequately isolate hydraulics on a mobile crusher has resulted in a hydraulic pressure related injury at a NZ quarry. A recent MinEx Alert has, once again, drawn attention to a frequent...
