ENVIRONMENT

Cable pull pain

AN INVESTIGATION into an incident at Newcrest Mining’s Cadia underground copper-gold mine that left an electrician with blunt force trauma injuries to his torso has found several faults with the way the work was being conducted.

The approximate positions of the workers in the man-basket.

The approximate positions of the workers in the man-basket.

On August 31 electricians working on the 5050 level underground at Cadia East Operations were installing cable from the man-basket of an integrated tool carrier. The cable was to be linked to a substation,...

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