Investigators probe pulley wheel near miss

THE New South Wales Resources Regulator is investigating an incident at Illawarra Metallurgical Coal’s Appin East underground mine in which a contract worker was lucky not be crushed to death by a falling pulley wheel.

Where the Appin East pulley wheel came to rest.

24 February 2021
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The head sheave pulley wheel, weighing several tonnes, dislodged from its support frame and fell 13m to the ground below during the removal of the winder rope from the Appin East drift winder.

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