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Women injured while working as 'casuals' at a Hunter Valley mine say they have been abandoned by the system

Ian Kirkwood
Updated November 2 2019 - 10:34am, first published 7:00am
 DOGGED DETERMINATION: Corrine McCarthy and Brodie Gilks, both injured at work while driving trucks for Chandler Macleod at BHP's Mount Arthur mine. Both say they have been treated appallingly and say they are far from the only ones in similar situations. Picture: Simone De Peak
DOGGED DETERMINATION: Corrine McCarthy and Brodie Gilks, both injured at work while driving trucks for Chandler Macleod at BHP's Mount Arthur mine. Both say they have been treated appallingly and say they are far from the only ones in similar situations. Picture: Simone De Peak

BRODIE Gilks was a trainee driver at BHP's Mount Arthur coal mine in 2017 when a load being dropped into her 240-tonne-load Caterpillar dump truck threw her around and injured her shoulder.

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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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