This is the only other collapsed bucket-wheel excavator I've seen, apart from Goonyella-Riverside's famous incident. It looks like it might be part of a coal stacker-reclaimer system.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Bucket-Wheel Excavator Collapse
This is the only other collapsed bucket-wheel excavator I've seen, apart from Goonyella-Riverside's famous incident. It looks like it might be part of a coal stacker-reclaimer system.
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Thanks. What was the Goonyella-Riverside incident? I'm not familiar with it.
Are you sure that was Goonyella-Riverside and not Caol & Allied's Mount Thorley Krupp bucket wheel reclaimer incident of late 1980s? If it was the metal straps holding the counterweight failed with the counterweight pivoting into the structure and the reclaimer wheel, with operator plunged to the ground from a height of about 10-12 metres. The operator suffered back injuries but made sufficient recovery to return to work in same job.
Re: Goonyella-Riverside incident.
Ref:
http://www.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2008/QSC/141
Here is the updated link to the judgement: ttp://www.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2008/QSC/141
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