ESTEVAN - The Westmoreland Coal Company says nobody was injured in an incident involving a dragline earlier this month.
The incident occurred early on April 9 near the Shand Power Station outside of Estevan. The company responded quickly.
Conan Mullaney, the general manager of the Estevan Mine Site, said a pad failure occurred on a dragline. The cause of the failure has yet to be determined.
“We went in right away and started stabilizing the machine, and got it basically stable,” said Mullaney. “We’re working to further stabilize it as we go about trying to recover the machine.”
The company has been working on a plan.
Mullaney said they are in constant communication with their customers and regulators who are overseeing the incident.
It’s not known how long the dragline will be out of service.
Mullaney said the mine has ample coal inventories to sustain coal deliveries, so they don’t anticipate any issues with deliveries while the dragline is down.
