Case Study
ORICA Charleville
26.09.2014 COR Australia Level 1, 56 Little Edward St Spring Hill Brisbane 4000 www.coraustralia.com Contact Us 1300 362 226 Eight people injured. The safe transportation of ammonium nitrate is regulated under the Australian dangerous goods code and in Queensland under the Explosives Act, which is overseen by the Department of Natural Resources and Mines and Inspector of Explosives. Detours and restrictions on Highway in place until all repairs are made. ORICA Charleville A two-kilometre exclusion zone was declared near Charleville after a Kenworth truck carrying the potentially lethal load of more than 50 tonnes of ammonium nitrate had driven off a bridge and rolled into a creek. The nitrate was being transported to South Australia for the