Dangerous incident | SinNot 2018/00958 Summary: A haul truck was parked up and shutdown due to rain. The operator remained in the cab. After about an hour, the truck rolled forward 30 to 40 metres...
Tag - MINING
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit. These deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the miner.
Ores recovered by include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, chalk, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay. Mining is required to obtain any material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory. Mining in a wider sense includes extraction of any non-renewable resource such as petroleum, natural gas, or even water.
AMSJ provides information on a wide range of practices, news, articles and case studies associated with mining.
Serious injury | SinNot 2018/00959 Summary: A haul truck was trying to pass a grader when it slid towards the grader and made contact. The grader was cleaning a haul road following rain...
Dangerous incident | SinNot 2018/00961 Summary: A collision occurred when a light vehicle rolled into a Jumbo. The light vehicle was parked in the decline. After leaving the vehicle it rolled forward...
Dangerous incident | SinNot 2018/00964 Summary: A boilermaker suffered a fractured foot. The boilermaker was cutting a steel plate from an excavator bucket when the steel plate fell to the ground...
Serious injury | SinNot 2018/00970 Summary: Three workers were injured when the transport vehicle they were passengers in hit a sled. A load haul dump (LHD) vehicle was towing the sled out of the...
Dangerous incident | SinNot 2018/00971 Summary: A workshop roof was damaged when an articulated truck hit it. After completing the pre-use inspection, the tub was still raised and the operator tried...
From the media room of WorkSafe NZ: We have accepted an enforceable undertaking from fibreboard manufacturing company Dongwha New Zealand Limited, following an incident in December 2016 where a...
A worker was holding onto the feeder while trying to clear a blockage in a jaw crusher, when a rock hit his hand and he sustained injury to the hand, requiring medical treatment. The cause of...
Vega’s non-contact, continuous level measurement system Vegapuls 69 continues to prove its versatility in bulk solid measuring, being utilised for the purpose of rock crusher level control, a...
A worker suffered suspected neck injuries when an excavator was loading a dump truck. The mounts on a hydraulic tank on the dump truck failed during the incident. Recommendations to industry: When...
