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These incidents are included for your review. The NSW Resources Regulator does not endorse the findings or recommendations of these incidents. It is your legal duty to exercise due diligence to ensure the business complies with its work health and safety obligations.
Interational (fatal)
US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
On August 17, 2022, a general inside laborer died when he was caught between a supply car and its coupler. The victim was sitting on the supply car which was coupled to a locomotive parked in a track spur. The locomotive was struck by another locomotive pulling three loaded cars into the mine. The impact knocked the victim off the supply car, killing him.
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Interational (fatal)
US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
On August 23, 2022, a contract mechanic received fatal injuries while performing maintenance on the bucket (dipper) of an electric rope shovel. A plastic block, used to prop open the dipper door, dislodged causing the dipper door to close and pin the victim against the back edge of the dipper.
Interational (fatal)
US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
Wooten Sand - On 4 August 2022, a mine manager died while performing maintenance on a bulldozer. While kneeling on the bulldozer's track, the victim accidentally engaged the lever that put the bulldozer in reverse. The bulldozer track moved the victim to the rear of the bulldozer where he was run over. Operators should train miners on safe maintenance procedures such as turning off the engine and blocking equipment against motion.
National (other, non-fatal)
Resources Safety & Health Queensland
Operations were recently suspended at an underground coal mine in Queensland upon discovery that the mine was not compliant with legislation relating to the required number of certified Emergency Response Team (ERT) members available to respond to a potential emergency situation. Coal mine operators and Site Senior Executives (SSEs) should be aware that any future breaches of legislative requirements will result in the Inspectorate taking immediate compliance action.
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National (other, non-fatal)
Government of Western Australia
Dampier Salt Limited was today fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $6,283 in costs after a worker's head and neck became trapped while working at height at the company's Port Hedland salt operations. In July 2018, two contractors were using an elevating work platform (EWP) to inspect the underside of a large salt stacker. A third man was working at ground level as the leading hand and spotter. One of the men inadvertently raised the EWP which caused his head and neck to become caught between the platform's control panel and the salt stacker. The injured contractor temporarily lost consciousness and was taken by ambulance to the Hedland Health Campus. He was discharged later that day. While the workers completed a Job Hazard Analysis and a Critical Control Checklist before starting the job, neither report identified the crush hazard as an applicable risk. The company also failed to verify the workers' competency to operate the relevant make and model of EWP. This lack of familiarisation caused a delay in lowering the platform after the contractor lost consciousness. Dampier Salt pleaded guilty in the Perth Magistrates Court for failing to provide a safe working environment.
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National (other, non-fatal)
Government of Western Australia
From 2018 to 2021, six serious incidents relating to air conditioning flushing canisters have been reported on mine sites in Western Australia. In five of these incidents, the flushing canister had been over-pressurised and subsequently ruptured. In all reported incidents, the involved flushing canisters were assumed to be in working order at the beginning of the task. Injuries from these events included lacerations to the lower arm and workers being hit by the canister and/or fragments.
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