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Conveyor incident leaves Appin worker with serious foot injuries

A WORKER suffered serious injuries when his foot became trapped in a scraper conveyor underground at South32’s Appin North mine in New South Wales.

Conveyor incident leaves Appin worker with serious foot injuries

The labour hire worker was taken to hospital and required surgery. He was walking on the scraper conveyor while it was operating, when his foot fell through a section covered by just 150 x 150 millimetres...

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