Safety Alert – Brake Failure
A service truck was reported to have experienced brake failure while being driven down a slope at a mine site. The vehicle veered off the road and came to rest following contact with the safety berm. No injury was sustained by the lone driver in the High Potential Incident (HPI). INITIAL OBSERVATIONS: ▪ Brake failure▪ […]
Safety Alert – Fatal Incident
On Friday, 21st May, 2021 at 05:00 am, a Bell Moxie articulated dump truck was assigned to haul waste material to a waste dump. On its return from the waste dump to reload in the open-cut mine pit, it veered off the haul road and over the berm. It fell about 40 meters and landed […]
Safety Alert – Finger Injury
A recent incident of a finger injury in one of the mines occurred when an employee put his hand into the belt guard of a slurry sump pump to check condition of the belt. Whilst in the process, the left fingers of the employee caught between the pulley and the belt when the pump rotated […]