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Loader boulder-struck

THE New South Wales mine safety resources regulator from the Department of Industry has issued a safety alert after a wheel loader operator was hit by a falling rock at a quarry near Stradforth, NSW, in July.

Karma Barndon
The hole left by the rock

The hole left by the rock

The operator was working at around 18m on an area recently blasted when a 23kg rock fell 17m from the blasted quarry face onto the machine’s bucket arm while raised before tumbling through the cab into...

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