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Workers wounded after falling through mesh walkways

WORKERS have required medical treatment after they fell through mesh walkways and platforms in two separate incidents at Queensland coal mines.

 The section of steel mesh walkway the worker was standing on failed.

The section of steel mesh walkway the worker was standing on failed.

The Queensland Mines Inspectorate said in both instances the potential existed for the injuries to have been far more serious. In the first incident on January 27, a coal mine worker was walking on...

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