A global mineral producer’s procedure to minimise workplace incidents was totally deficient, an advocacy found. Rio Tinto’s rail safety systems were recently discovered to have...
Category - Driver Safety
Two truck employees became crushed under extremely heavy loads. Authorities recently investigated two cases where a heavy vehicle cab and bundle of steel pinned workers. The first incident involved a...
A driver passed away while exiting a large transporter. Authorities recently examined circumstances leading up to an operator being trapped and killed by a bus door. Investigators suspect the worker...
A heavy vehicle driver drowned and passed away. A resources company retrained all crew members after a haul truck operator suffocated to death. Emergency services were called to Cape Sandy mine at...
A mine truck kept moving despite already having an alternate stopping system. Authorities recently examined a heavy vehicle brake failure at an undisclosed operation. “The service brake system...
An underground worker passed away and others became seriously wounded after mine equipment crushed them. Authorities are investigating four separate incidents where mobile equipment fatally pinned...
A contractor who was fatally pinned by a heavy vehicle will be remembered as a good man. Tributes recently flowed for the late Luke O’Brien who died at BHP Mitsubishi Alliance’s (BMA’s)...
A multinational mineral producer and technology company have reached a new autonomous truck agreement. Epiroc recently secured a new memorandum of understanding to develop, test, utilise, automate...
Authorities examined a movement controller after machinery failed to stop. Resources Safety and Health Queensland recently investigated what caused remote equipment to operate uncontrolled at an...
A resources services company, mineral producer and manager was disciplined for failing to prevent a deadly fall. Byrnecut Australia should have erected safety barriers around an excavated void at...
A heavy vehicle reversed into and killed a worker, resulting in severe penalties for the responsible company. Authorities recently examined how a contracted truck driver became fatally struck by a...
An amateur heavy vehicle driver passed away after going off the deep end. Authorities recently examined circumstances that led a long reach excavator operator to fatally enter water at Terra Firma...
