BHP Crew Applied Brakes to Wrong Train Before Runaway Crash

  • Interim report details efforts to halt train in iron ore hub
  • Roll-away incident was result of driver error, BHP exec. says
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BHP Group’s runaway iron ore train saga has taken another twist.

A preliminary report into last year’s calamity in the remote Australian outback has found a rail maintenance crew sent to help the faulty freight train inadvertently worked on the wrong vehicle.