No workers were injured in a minor underground collapse on the road tunnel project in Melbourne's inner west.
abc.net.au/news/west-gate-tunnel-collapse-yarraville-melbourne/102426272Work has again been halted on the West Gate Tunnel project, this time after what has been described as a minor underground collapse in Melbourne's inner west.
The union's construction organiser, Joel Archer, said it happened about 1 kilometre in from the tunnel entrance at Yarraville and between 300 metres and 500 metres underground. "It's not considered catastrophic but what has happened is works have ceased."An exclusion zone has been set up and geotechnical assessments have begun to determine what is needed to make the ground safe."Works will remain stopped, people won't be allowed back down there until there's an engineering report," he said.
"The public can be reassured that, as I said, no one was hurt and we've done everything we can to ensure that the workers are safe.", delaying completion by several years.
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