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Fine for explosives truck incident

WESTDRILL has been fined $10,000 for two Mines Safety and Inspection Regulations breaches relating to an explosives truck incident at Mineral Resources’ Iron Valley mine in the Western Australian Pilbara region in 2015.

Noel Dyson
Westdrill fined $10,000 for regulations breaches.

Westdrill fined $10,000 for regulations breaches.

The two charges followed a Department of Mines and Petroleum investigation into the February 4 2015 incident in which the operator lost full control of a mobile manufacturing unit being driven down a ramp...

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