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"Mechanical" fault stopped Tahmoor

A MECHANICAL issue in the winding system for the Number 3 shaft winder has been blamed for the incident that left two workers suspended 160m below the surface at Simec's Tahmoor coking coal mine in New South Wales southern highlands.

Some of the damage in the shaft after the winder incident.

Some of the damage in the shaft after the winder incident.

However, while Simec has laid the blame on a mechanical fault for the September 5 incident, it is yet to go into further details on what that fault actually was. One theory is that a misaligned shaft...

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