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Excavator bucket incident leads to fatality

A BOILERMAKER using an air carbon arc gouging process to remove an external wearplate on an excavator bucket at a Queensland mine site has died after the plate unexpectedly sprang up and struck him in the head.

Excavator bucket incident leads to fatality

According to the Queensland Mines Inspectorate, these plates have elastic springback potential.   In this incident the plate being worked on sprang up about 1200mm. About midway in this upward movement,...

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