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Micro-sleep leads to ute rollover

A LIGHT vehicle rolled in a dangerous incident at a New South Wales open cut coal mine after the vehicle operator reportedly had a micro-sleep.

 Fatigue caused an incident where a ute rolled over at a NSW mine.

Fatigue caused an incident where a ute rolled over at a NSW mine.

The operator was traveling on a haul road at 5:30am when the ute rolled onto its side, the NSW Resources Regulator said in an alert.   "The Resources Regulator is concerned with the increase in fatigue-related...

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