Monday, 06 Jun 2011
Reuters reported that Rio Tinto, the world's second biggest iron ore miner, said that export operations had ceased at one of the three wharves at Dampier port in Western Australia a day after a construction worker was killed in an accident.
Police are investigating the accident on the wharf at East Intercourse Island where a contract worker was carrying out maintenance.
A company spokesman said that the wharf at East Intercourse Island is one of three jetties used to load iron ore shipments and accounts for about a third of the 145 million tonnes the company exports from Dampier each year.
It was the first fatal accident in the company's Pilbara operations since August 2003.
(sourced Reuters)
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