Ironbark
Well-Known Member
Praise God forever more! He survived. Cheers, Ironbark.
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Cat D 11 over wall.
- Thread starter Ironbark
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Praise God forever more! He survived. Cheers, Ironbark.
Steveodukk
New Member
Holy Shot. That's unbelievable! Thank god noone was hurt.
Nige
Senior Member
As usual, there is a story behind why he walked away without so much as a scratch ......... I'm amazed no-one's asked.
Per Eriksson
Senior Member
That last one had have been remote controlled or something.
Nige
Senior Member
Nope ......
Ironbark
Well-Known Member
What can one say? Many things lead up to tragic accidents like this. Its hardly ever just one thing. A combination of excessively Long shifts, (12+ hours), no or low berm, not familiar with haul roads in a particular cut, mechanical failure.
Ironbark
Well-Known Member
I wont ask. Info like that is given volentarily or not. Depends on family. I know of a man who died in a truck over the wall. Left a wife and two small children. Very sad.
PhilDirt
Well-Known Member
Jumped?
Nige
Senior Member
No. If you look just to the left of centre of the photo with the water truck in it you can see a discontinuity of the berm right on the skyline, that's where the dozer came from. The story is he was preparing a drill pad up on that top level and something "felt funny" according to him. So he parked about 15m from the edge, lowered all the equipment and got out to inspect the work area on foot. As he was walking around he found some cracks, and they were opening. As he stood there watching the whole area sloughed and took the dozer with it. That used one of his 9 lives up I can tell you.
OldandWorn
Senior Member
Great story!
Nige
Senior Member
I was actually on the site when it happened, we had a maintenance contract on all the mining equipment there. Once he saw what was left of the tractor the operator was not compos mentis for quite some time afterwards, it shook him up badly the realization that proably no more than 30 seconds before it went over the wall he'd been sitting in the cab. I'm not sure he ever worked again truth be told. Screwed with his head too much.
OldandWorn
Senior Member
Did you feel the earth shake? Musta been quite a site if someone witnessed this from below and the relief afterwards knowing that it was a ghosted.
Nige
Senior Member
We heard the bang from the workshop that must have been a mile or so away.
rare ss
Senior Member
I'll have to find it, but I have a pic of a wall slide which moved an EX1800 around 60m.. lucky it happened not long after a blast and the pit was clear scary stuff
Nige
Senior Member
Y'know those were the first words out of my mouth .... or something like "5 gallons of T-Cut will sort that out"