Two workers were hospitalised, and another injured, after being exposed to a high pressure fluid release in October, a NSW Mine Safety report has revealed. Maintenance activities on an excavator were...
Tag - Mine Safety
BTP Equipment Pty Ltd has been fined $195,000 and ordered to pay $100,000 in costs for its involvement in the death of worker Paul Torre on 24 December 2010. Mr Torre was working in the mobile...
The Brazilian Government intends to sue Samarco, Vale and BHP for $7.2b for clean-up costs and damages after dams collapsed at their iron ore operation in Minas Gerais killing 13 people. According to...
On November 24, 1999, disaster struck underground at Northparkes mine in central New South Wales and the lives of four miners were lost. Ross Bodkin 41, Michael House 33, Stuart Osmond 47 and Colin...
The importance of seat belts in mining vehicles has been highlighted in a report released by the DMP after a fatal dump truck rollover. The dump truck operator was killed on a Western Australian site...
A contractor working at Northern Star Resources’ Paulsens Gold Mine has died after becoming “seriously unwell” this morning. Northern Star has temporarily ceased operational...
An investigation report into the deaths of two men at Austar Coal Mine in 2014 has been released by the NSW Government. The men, James Mitchell, 49, and Phillip Grant, 35, died on April 15, 2014...
Premier Coal’s Collie mine is under investigation due to five separate fires involving trucks and machinery in the past three weeks. Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources Safety Division...
A Rio Tinto subsidiary has been fined $70,000 after a fatality in 2011 in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Brent Grew, 27, was crushed to death in 2011 while removing a tilt cylinder from a...
Speaking at the Department of Mines and Petroleum Mine Safety Roadshow in Geraldton on Tuesday, mine safety inspector Doug Barclay said an influx of inexperienced mine workers is partly to...
