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Flawed second egress not pursued by safety inspector

A FORMER Pike River mine inspector has defended waiting four months to follow up on his insistence the mine’s inadequate second emergency exit be replaced, saying he was too busy attending to other non-mining duties, including a farm incident.

Lauren Barrett
Flawed second egress not pursued by safety inspector

Kevin Poynter, a former New Zealand Department of Labour mine inspector, endured a third day of questioning from lawyers at the Royal Commission inquiry into the Pike River mine tragedy that killed 29...

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