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Integra Shearer Shear Shaft Maintenance- Mining Accident Database
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Mine Accidents and Disasters. Integra Shearer Shear Shaft Maintenance. 04/04/2009 - Integra Underground Coal Mine. A longwall crew was replacing a broken drive shaft on the ranging arm of a longwall shearer. The drive shaft had a spline on each end and required alignment of the splines to be completely installed. It appears that the drive motor rotated under power, catching and forcibly ejecting the shaft. A coupling housing was flung from the end of the rotating shaft, striking the victim.
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Boggabri Surface Mine 2014- Mining Accident Database
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Mine Accidents and Disasters. Boggabri Surface Mine 2014. THE New South Wales coal mining industry has been rocked by another fatality with the reported death of a mine worker at Idemitsu’s Boggabri mine in the Gunnedah Basin this morning. Location of the Boggabri coal Mine. Courtesy of Idemitsu. The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union general secretary Andrew Vickers said the recent coal mining accidents in New South Wales and Queensland as well as the 301 fatalities in the mine fire in Turkey...
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Mine Accidents and Disasters
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Mine Disasters in Australia. Moura 2 Mine 1994. South Bulli Colliery 1991. Moura 4 Mine 1986. Cobar Shaft Fire 1980. Kianga No. 1 Mine Explosion 1975. Box Flat Mine 1972. Collinsville State Coal Mine 1954. Harts Aberdare Mine 1936. Mt Mulligan Mine 1921. Stanford Merthyre Mine 1905. Lithgow Valley Colliery 1886. The Bulli Mine Disaster of 23 March 1887 involved a gas explosion in the mine that killed 81 men and boys, leaving 50 women widows and 150 children without fathers.
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Mine Accidents and Disasters
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Mine Accidents in Australia. Cadia - Ridgeway Mine. BMA Blackwater Rollover 2015. Dawson Tyre Explosion 2015. Oylimpic Dam Roof Fall 2015. Grasstree Rib Fall 2014. Mt Isa Copper Missing Person 2014. Boggabri Surface Mine 2014. Mt Lyell Inrush 2014. Mt Lyell Shaft 2013. Ravensworth Vehicle Collision 2013. Integra Shearer Shear Shaft Maintenance. Peter James Comerford 2000. Mt Isa transport fall 1999. Sang Chul Kim 1999. Bolton, Kerr, Bissell and Swift 1993. Rowlands and Hilton 1990.
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Mine Accidents and Disasters around the World. Click on a Country to begin your search.
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Moura 4 Mine 1986- Mining Accident Database
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Mine Accidents and Disasters. Moura 4 Mine 1986. 16/07/1986 - Moura 4 Mine. Explosion / Gas Explosion, Coal Dust Explosion. At approximately 11:05 am on 16th July, 1986 there was an explosion in Moura No. 4 Underground Mine in Central Queensland. The 12 miners who were extracting pillars in the Main Dips Section were killed. Their bodies were recovered on 23rd July, 1986 after an extensive recovery operation. This accident claimed the lives of 12 people, these were:. 1 FLAME SAFETY LAMPS.
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Mt Mulligan Mine 1921- Mining Accident Database
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Mine Accidents and Disasters. Mt Mulligan Mine 1921. 19/09/1921 - Mt Mulligan Mine. Explosion / Coal Dust Explosion. On the 19th day of September, 1921, at 9·25 am, a violent explosion occurred in the underground workings of Mount Mulligan Mine, killing seventy-three men outright, and so badly injuring two others that they succumbed shortly afterwards. Three possible sources of origination have been suggested by the evidence. It is difficult to understand how explosives, being used in the ordinary way, c...
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Soma 2014- Mining Accident Database
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Mine Accidents and Disasters. 13/05/2014 - Soma Mine. Turkey's energy minister, Taner Yildiz, announced the end of the search effort while attending a funeral for some of the workers killed in the disaster. He said 301 miners had been killed, while another 485 escaped or were rescued after the mine was rocked by an explosion last Tuesday (local time). This accident claimed the lives of 301 people.
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Aberfan Disaster 1966- Mining Accident Database
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Mine Accidents and Disasters. 21/10/1966 - Merthyr Vale Colliery. Collapse, Inrush, Outrush / Debris slide. Was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in the accumulated rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. This accident claimed the lives of 144 people. A standard Code of Practice should be prepared for consi...
