ENVIRONMENT

Worker hurt in drill mishap

A NEW South Wales coal miner suffered severe friction burns to his right forearm after his jumper became caught in the rotating steel of a hand-held air drill.

 The Regulator's image of the incident

The Regulator's image of the incident

According to a report by the NSW Resources Regulator, the man was working as part of a crew to fix two longwall roof supports that had rotated and were canopy tip down, by drilling and shooting stone above...

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