Glencore improves fatigue controls after 2018 night-time truck collision

Ian Kirkwood
Updated July 9 2019 - 3:42pm, first published 3:30pm
ACCIDENT AFTERMATH: Damage to the front and cabin of the 793C Caterpillar dump truck that ran into the rear of a similar, stationary, dump truck, on night-shift in July last year. Picture: Resources Regulator
ACCIDENT AFTERMATH: Damage to the front and cabin of the 793C Caterpillar dump truck that ran into the rear of a similar, stationary, dump truck, on night-shift in July last year. Picture: Resources Regulator

A FATIGUE-RELATED night-time collision at the Bulga open-cut mine, in which one 160-tonne dump truck drove into the rear of another at 40km/h, did not breach any workplace health and safety regulations, an investigation has found.

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Ian Kirkwood

Ian Kirkwood

Journalist

Reporting journalist at the Newcastle Herald since 1987. Editorial writer, general reporter, industrial relations, industry and coal.

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