EX1800 Into Overpass

Another one sent in by a reader. At the Oak Hill mine in Texas, USA. April, 2010.

Fire on Cross-Pit Spreader

Lots of great photos came in this week, it was tough to pick the first one to put up. These pictures are of a fire on a cross-pit spreader, and occurred at the Big Brown Mine, in Fairfield Texas, on November 2008.

Bogged 1850

Sent in this week by a reader. According to the email, they thought it could be pulled out by a D10!

793 vs Drill Rig

Received these photos a couple of weeks ago, but with no description or location. Judging by the marks behind the truck, it looked like it might have just come around a corner.

Landslip Onto Ute and Excavator

Today's photos come from the sunny land of NZ. From the description: A hillside failed after heavy rain and pushed a ute against an excavator. The mechanic welding a hand rail in place narrowly avoided getting crushed. The ute was written off, but the excavator and welder survived.

Excavator on Side

Dragline Bench Failure

Another dragline bench failure from the past. Does anyone know what site it's from?

HME over LV

I don't know what site this is from, but it looks like another very lucky operator.

Coal Reclaimer Collapse

These amazing photos were sent in this week by a reader. They're from an incident that occured on the 25th of May, at the Itaguai port in Brazil.

10 people were on this reclaimer as it was preparing for maintenance. Fortunately, all escaped serious injury.

Ejected Drill Rig

More great photos sent in last week from WA. A brand new Drillcorp Western Deephole Diamond Drill rig was being delivered to a Rio Tinto exploration site in the Pilbara.

From the description:
Apparently the driver stalled it on the hill....tried to do a hill-start....cocked it up and shunted the truck so hard it broke the chains holding the rig to the flatbed.....then the drill slid backward before falling off to the side !!! Brand Spankers !!!