More people seem to be looking at this page rather than the home page, so I thought I'd post a copy of the video here too.:
I finally got some photos of the Curragh boom accident this week, so I thought I'd post them right away, since there's a lot of interest in them.
This has probably got to be the biggest mining accident in the Bowen Basin for years. Curragh was performing a shutdown of its dragline, and decided to lower the boom using a Manitowoc crane instead of using the internal mechanisms. Something went wrong with the crane, and the boom fell from nearly its full height.In the photos, you can see the damage to the top chord of the boom. The Manitowoc crane itself is destroyed except for the main house. You can see the remains of the front boom hanging over the remains of the rear boom. It's amazing no-one was seriously hurt. The boom itself would have to be totally written off, and rebuilt from scratch.
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i worked on the boom point section of the curragh fiasco. i think they did build some new sections for it but i was suprised how little damage there was to the boom point to be honest. that whole shutdown was a clust _____ from the start.
A bit old now, but I got this footage emailed to me today and have uploaded to YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgLL0K139RI
Does anyone know the name of the crane company?
A crane of that type and being 'blue' in colour would most likely be from Lampson Cranes in Awaba, NSW.
What date did that occur?
I found something about this online at the Queensland Supreme Court. It's certainly not good advertising material for Lampsons.
http://www.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2009/QSC/361
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