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Old 12-18-2016, 08:18 AM
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The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

The accident happened in Australia in Nov 2008 at the Wesfarmers Curragh coal mine in central Queensland.

The official report cited operator error, and rumor has it the operator was inexperienced and pulled the wrong lever and allowed the winch to go into free-fall.

He tried to catch it on the drum brake but that overheated, exploded and caught fire as you can see.

The dragline boom was being lowered for maintenance, and as you can see the correct radius hadn't been chosen to let the drag line boom clear the M4600-based Transilift boom. The operator suffered minor injuries.

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Re: The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

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Re: The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

Oh fuck is right! Those mining draglines are run 24x7x365 to get the maximum value from that very, very expensive machinery. So I'm quite sure this maintenance was scheduled on a tight window to keep the downtime to a minimum. Now that dragline will be offline much longer due to the poor decision to let Lefty McNewby run the crane.
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Re: The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

Well, it fell with a boom!.............You almost had to crane your neck to see......I guess you could say "their business is booming!"..........Thanks!.....I'll be here all week!......i
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Re: The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

Took out three other cranes too, these aussies don't do shit by fuckin' halves!
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Re: The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

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Oh fuck is right! Those mining draglines are run 24x7x365 to get the maximum value from that very, very expensive machinery. So I'm quite sure this maintenance was scheduled on a tight window to keep the downtime to a minimum. Now that dragline will be offline much longer due to the poor decision to let Lefty McNewby run the crane.
You forgot to mention all the Dingo's and Kangaroo's it scared the crap out of , cool story tho
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Re: The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

Mate, tell 3d shift to bring their shovels....

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Re: The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

That was an EXPENSIVE MISTAKE !!!
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Re: The Wesfarmers Curragh Coal Mine Crane Accident

Oh F word is right!
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