Hundreds of mine workers might not need to reskill and be redeployed, an advocacy said. The Mining and Energy Union (MEU) recently contacted authorities to discuss different ways 200 employees can...
Tag - NSW Resources Regulator
A resources employee became covered in tonnes of material at an operation. A Komatsu PC350 excavator operator was recently buried alive at an undisclosed open-cut coal mine. The worker had tried to...
A faulty stopping device is likely to have caused an underground employee fatality. Authorities recently examined circumstances surrounding a mine worker who was unresponsive and died on 28 April...
Authorities are examining circumstances surrounding a missing resources employee’s fatality. Investigators recently confirmed a worker was unresponsive and died that same day at a mine site...
An operator discovered trucks can roll away even when a stop device is engaged. An unoccupied fuel truck recently descended 8 metres and crashed into a mobile stacker despite the park brake already...
Authorities have released a reenactment of a resources employee being pinned under heavy equipment. A recent video illustrates the terrifying moment a male worker became trapped under a loader cab...
A multinational mineral producer will examine how a coal employee became hurt on the job. Authorities are trying to determine circumstances surrounding a female worker at South32’s Dendrobium...
A heavy vehicle operator collided with much smaller machinery at an undisclosed open-cut coal operation. A dump truck driver recently became unable to see a dozer parked behind him next to a windrow...
A mine employee was crushed because he was neither paying attention nor practising workplace safety, investigators found. An underground shift worker was hospitalised after being pinned between a rib...
Emergency responders successfully removed a coal employee who was trapped on an earth-fill embankment. Four workers recently rescued an amphibious excavator operator who became stranded for seven...
