Hi Bryan,
These two incidents occurred in two separate coal mines in central XXXXXXXX just over 12 months ago. The first of the two is the result of when people do not park in designated parking areas. This incident occurred at night when the driver of the Toyota Troop Carrier parked in an area nearby to where a Cat. D11 Dozer was operating. Leaving the vehicle for a few minutes, the driver returned to find that the D11 had reversed over it. Fortunately no one was in the vehicle at the time. Another D11, another incident. This was an unpredictable event. The operator was pushing safety rills over a high wall in preparation for a new blast pattern when the bench fractured behind the dozer. (You can see just to the right of the dozer the fracture in the bench). The driver was fortunate in two instances: 1. he was wearing his seatbelt preventing him from being thrown through the windshield, and 2. the highwall failure only slumped a small way. (I have been lead to believe that there was still another 30+ meters of vertical drop from the blade of the dozer to the pit floor). I suppose he was even more fortunate in the fact that the emergency response team is one of the best in XXXXXXXXX. I hope you enjoy the pictures. I’m not too fussed on credit as these were passed on to me by a colleague. I just happened to be consulting there at the time in a separate department. Still, we can all learn something from these things.
Regards
Ben
