Saraji Dragline 22 Broken Boom

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope Santa didn't bring you any broken booms. Can any readers out there fill in some more information on when this occured?

Rear-Dumper on Side

Rear-Dumper at Bottom of Spoil

Bucket-Wheel Excavator Picks Up Dozer

Those bucket-wheel excavators are very hungry.

Rolled Scraper

Bucket-Wheel Excavator Collapse

This is the only other collapsed bucket-wheel excavator I've seen, apart from Goonyella-Riverside's famous incident. It looks like it might be part of a coal stacker-reclaimer system.

Highwall Collapse Onto Rear Dumper

Otherwise known as 'speed loading the truck'.

Giant Flyrock

That is an amazingly large rock. Someone was very lucky that they weren't sitting in that lounge chair.

Hole Punch

How do you punch a perfect hole into a truck tyre? Like this:

This was done by the Hope Downs mine, on one of their 777 water trucks.

Truck Transport

Only in America.

Caught Up Rear-Dumper

We've had some rear-dumpers that have been caught up on objects before, but never with these results.

Drowned Bucket-Wheel Excavator

 

All I know about these photos is that it occurred in March 2007.

 

Look at this picture. Three BWE's in one shot!

Burned Rear Dumper

Drive-off Ramp

In this week's series of photos, it looks like an RD has driven of a ramp onto the pit floor below. This is the worst kind of accident; the completely avoidable accident.