Incident Summary August 2025 edition
Monthly incident insights
Key learnings
These incidents highlight recurring and preventable failures in managing conveyor and plant-related risks.To prevent similar occurrences, WorkSafe reminds WA companies of these critical control measures: 1. Effective guarding 2. Isolation…...
Special edition: Conveyor guarding
Western Australian companies use conveyors throughout the State’s mining and resources sector. However, they remain one of the most hazardous types of plant. Serious and fatal incidents persistwhen workers come…...
Worker’s arm caught in unguarded conveyor during repair
A worker suffered fractures, lacerations and burns after their arm was pulled into the tail-end pulley of a conveyor system on a shell-bagging machine at a mine site. The incident…...
Worker’s arm amputated in conveyor crush point
A labour hire worker suffered a traumatic amputation when one of their arms was caught in the crush point between a conveyor belt and a roller at a recycling plant.…...
Serious injuries from tail-end pulley
A worker sustained severe injuries to their back and both of their arms while operating an alluvial screening and crushing plant. The incident occurred when the worker attempted to use…...
Fatality from unguarded conveyor
An experienced plant operator was fatally injured after becoming entangled in the mechanism of a salt pit conveyor. Critically, the conveyor guard wasn't in place at the time. Even when…...
Monthly Incident Insights
WorkSafe Mines Safety incident InsightsIncident Summary August 2025 edition
Incident summaries provide a brief overview of workplace events in mining operations that impact health and safety, highlighting causes, outcomes, and preventive actions....
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Incident summaries provide a brief overview of workplace events in mining operations that impact health and safety, highlighting causes, outcomes, and preventive actions....
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Incident summaries provide a brief overview of workplace events in mining operations that impact health and safety, highlighting causes, outcomes, and preventive actions....
