Lack of vision leads to underground crash

RESTRICTED vision from a grader and the operator’s failure to turn his head around and check has led to a collision with a LHD at an underground Queensland coal mine.

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An LHD travelling outbye had shut down and stopped between cut-throughs.

The Queensland Mines Inspectorate said that the operator's lack of vigilance could have been more serious if he had failed to identify coal mine workers on foot underground.