Mining Mayhem

Before: After: This happened back in 2005. The excavator has since been repaired and put b...

This incident happened in September '08 at the Hay Point coal terminal.

These spectacular pictures come from the CSN Itagui mine in Brazil. This bucket-wheel reclaimer failed during commissioning i...

I've had lots of emails this week about this incident. A bucket-wheel reclaimer fell of the back of its low-...

Those bucket-wheel excavators are very hungry.

This is the only other collapsed bucket-wheel excavator I've seen, apart from Goonyella-Riverside's famous incident. It looks lik...

  All I know about these photos is that it occurred in March 2007.   Look at this picture. Three BWE's in one shot! ...