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Lack of vision leads to underground crash

RESTRICTED vision from a grader and the operator’s failure to turn his head around and check has led to a collision with a LHD at an underground Queensland coal mine.

Lou Caruana
An LHD travelling outbye had shut down and stopped between cut-throughs.

An LHD travelling outbye had shut down and stopped between cut-throughs.

The Queensland Mines Inspectorate said that the operator's lack of vigilance could have been more serious if he had failed to identify coal mine workers on foot underground.  The operator was grading...

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