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Reportable injuries on the rise in NSW

THE overall number of serious injuries reported to the New South Wales Resources Regulator by the state’s mining sector has increased year-on-year during the past three years, with serious injury incident notifications having returned to 2016-17 levels.

 At an operational level, serious injury incident notifications increased in underground coal.

At an operational level, serious injury incident notifications increased in underground coal.

Since 2017-18, serious injuries increased 36%, from 78 in 2017-18 to 94 in 2018-19 and to 106 in 2019-20, according to the NSW Resources Regulator Safety Performance Report. At an operational level,...

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