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Worker shocked and burned in Bowen Basin

AN ELECTRICAL worker at an underground coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin suffered burns in an electric shock after seemingly disregarding high voltage isolation and access procedures.

 The inspectorate's image of the incident

The inspectorate's image of the incident

In the February 15 incident the worker was part of a crew doing maintenance work on the 1000 volt equipment of a 1000V underground transformer. During the work he opened and entered an 11 kilovolt enclosure...

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