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Narrow miss at Queensland gas field

WORKERS at a CSG field in Queensland are lucky to be alive after a structural winch line on a drilling rig snapped resulting in a counterweight falling to the rig floor, narrowly missing drilling crew.

Narrow miss at Queensland gas field

  The rig was being set up to drill a new well when the winch line counterweight became snagged during rig up operations, causing the steel wire rope to break.  After the rope snapped, the counterweight...

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