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Head crushing fine for salt miner

RIO Tinto joint venture company Dampier Salt has been fined $20,000 and ordered to pay $6283 in costs in the Perth Magistrates Court over an incident in which a worker’s head and neck became trapped between an elevating work platform and a large salt stacker at the company’s Port Hedland salt operations in 2018.

 Dampier Salt operations

Dampier Salt operations

Dampier Salt pleaded guilty to failing to provide a safe working environment. In the July 2018 incident, two contractors were using the EWP to check the underside of the salt stacker, with a third worker...

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