Cracked Dozer

Great photo sent in this week by a reader, from the Leigh Creek coal mine. Not really sure what's happened here, could be a bench failure underneath the machine.

Troopie vs 789

These amazing pictures were sent in last week by a reader. They come from the Barrick gold mine, at Porgera in PNG.

From the incident report: At approximately 1300hrs on the 13th March, a light vehicle (LV) was run over by a 789 truck on Stage 5B of the Open Pit.

There was a driver and two passengers in the LV at the time of the incident. Neither of the passengers appear to have been injured. The driver of the LV appears to have suffered a dislocated collar bone.
The two passengers were able to remove themselves from the LV unassisted. The driver of the LV required assistance to be removed from the vehicle as the steering wheel was holding him in the seat.

Statements are currently being obtained and the investigation has commenced, however early indications are that the driver of the LV approached the truck from the right side and was unsighted by the truck driver. The truck was in motion and within approximately 50m of a Shovel, it is likely he was about to turn to line up to receive a load from the shovel.

The truck stopped leaving the LV at approximately the mid point of the truck.

Bogged Dozer

Dozer Off Bench

Vertical Rear-Dumper

Burned Rear Dumper

Reclaimer Pushed By Cyclone

These great photos came in this week from a new reader of the blog.

RC702 first Long Travel

'New' FMG reclaimer first movement (not no-load commissioning). This occurred during the recent cyclone.

Instructions were to:

      ·         Ensure all LT and Slew brakes were engaged

      ·         10t sling restraining each corner of the machine

      ·         Wedges to be placed on LT wheels, and

      ·         Boom to be luffed down and secured to crane counter weights

What happened:

      ·         2 out of the 12 LT brakes were engaged

      ·         3t come-alongs were used

      ·         Wedges were not put in correctly, and

      ·         The sling securing the boom came off in the high winds

Result: the machine moved 204m up hill on the rail and only stopped when the 3 leading bogies fell off the end of the rail, and the yard hold down roller frame was tipped over and jammed into the impact table. There were no end buffers in place so these hold down bolts were ran over.

Cost: 3-4 weeks extra delays in finishing reclaimer, and damage to 200m of belt and structure.

Dragline vs Cable Tractor

These photos were sent in by a reader this week, but with no backstory. Can anyone tell us which site / when this occurred?

Rolled Dozer

Shovel vs Rubber-Tired Dozer