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Dangerous gas levels at Narrabri

A LOAD haul dump operator was exposed to dangerous levels of methane and carbon dioxide gas within an unventilated section of an underground roadway at Whitehaven Coal’s Narrabri longwall mine in New South Wales.

Lou Caruana
There was a significant risk of methane ignition, or of the worker being overcome in the oxygen-depleted atmosphere at Narrabri.

There was a significant risk of methane ignition, or of the worker being overcome in the oxygen-depleted atmosphere at Narrabri.

The worker was driving the LHD in the underground roadway with an atmospheric accumulation of methane and carbon dioxide gas on March 13 when the onboard automatic methane monitoring system shut the machine...

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