ENVIRONMENT

No blast after truck drives over detonator

A STEMMING truck has run over a detonator and booster during the loading of shot holes at a New South Wales open cut coal mine.

The operator did not see the detonator and booster on the ground and drove over it.

The operator did not see the detonator and booster on the ground and drove over it.

The shotfirer in charge removed one level of high explosives from the holes and placed them adjacent to the holes on the next path. After travelling the same path on five occasions that morning, the...

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