FACT SHEET / NOVEMBER 2021 SAFETY IN THE MINING INDUSTRYIn 2020, the industry saw an 18% reg. verall injuries in 2020OVERVIEW OF PERFORMANCE TO …

A mine operator says an elevator suddenly dropped about 650 feet while carrying workers to the surface in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75.

Mine workers who had sustained injuries while working in South African mines say they find it nearly impossible to claim for compensation. They say the process is difficult to navigate and that tracing their medical records is difficult.

An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the …

Report your injury or disease immediately to your employer or supervisor. Your employer is legally responsible for reporting your injury on duty the Compensation Fund within seven ( 7) working days of receiving notice from you and within fourteen (14) days when it is an occupational disease as well as submitting the necessary forms and documents.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) national health and safety committee met on 4 August in Johannesburg to discuss the impact of the union's health and safety campaigns and training programmes in the …

When the initial 9 1/2-hour rescue operation ended, 177 were dead, one was missing, and 235 were injured, making Kinross the worst gold-mine disaster in South African history.

In 2010, according to figures released by the Department of Mineral Resources, 128 people were killed in mines in South Africa. "This was our best safety year since 2003," said Bheki Sibiya, the new CEO of the Chamber of Mines, which represents 80% of all mining companies in SA. The 24% reduction is the biggest year-on-year decrease since ...

Noise-induced hearing loss is an occupational health hazard. It remains a prevalent condition in the South African mining industry.

To put these statistics into perspective, Prof Cornelius uses the mining sector in South Africa, which is considered to be particularly hazardous because of the great depths at which some of the mining operations take place. 'The mining sector currently has an injury rate of 2,6 injuries per 1 000 000 hours. Football and rugby players are up to 5 000 …

Guidelines for Claims. Provided by Paralegal Advice. The Compensation Fund provides compensation for workers who get hurt at work, or sick from diseases contracted at work, or for death as a result …

Impala Platinum Holdings says all the 86 employees, who were involved in a mine accident at their operations in Rustenburg, North West on Monday have been accounted for.

An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday.

South African coal mines continue to be among the safest mines in the world. The number of fatalities in the South African coal industry decreased by 89% from 1933 to 2016, while the number of serious injuries decreased by 31% over the same time period.

This week, scientists were set to begin drilling a 750-meter-deep hole from the bottom of the Moab Khotsong mine, located some 180 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. Three years ago, a magnitude-5.5 earthquake erupted from a previously unknown fault beneath the mine. Aftershocks continue.

3 Sidumo and Another v Rustenburg Platinum Mines Ltd and Others [2007] ZACC 22; [2007] 12 BLLR 1097 (CC) at para 110;Herholdt v Nedbank Ltd (Congress of South African Trade Unions as amicus curia) [2013] 11 BLLR 1074 (SCA; and Gold Fields Mining South Africa (Pty) Ltd (Kloof Gold Mine) v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and …

By 5 July, South Africa's mining sector had recorded 32 deaths so far in 2021, compared with 24 in the same period last year. Despite the spike, the overall trend remains in the right direction.

In 2022, 12 fatal accidents occurred as a result of gold mining in South Africa. However, the same activity caused 589 injuries in the same year. Compared to …

More than 100 miners escaped from a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday after being held underground for three days by fellow employees in a union dispute, a company official said.

An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday.

A mine operator in South Africa says an elevator suddenly plunged about 200 meters while carrying workers to the surface, killing 11 and injuring 75.

Day three at Electra Mining Africa 2022 is themed Safety Day with a focus on Occupational Health & Safety for good reason. Safety on mines is vital, and one fatality …

Miners gather at the top of a goldmine shaft in Springs, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding around 500 of their colleagues underground for the second day at the mine over a union dispute. Some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles, the head of the mine said on …

The purpose of today's briefing is to officially release the 2019 occupational health and safety statistics for the mining industry. Together with our social partners in the mining industry – organised business and organised labour – we have assessed progress made on health and safety, and what is still to be done to achieve the goal of a fatality …

More than 100 miners escaped from a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday after being held underground for three days by fellow employees in a union dispute, a company official said.

Find out how to claim payments for injuries on duty in South Africa, according to the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act.

JOHANNESBURG: An elevator carrying workers to the surface at a giant South African platinum mine plunged out of control killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operators said Tuesday. Impala Platinum ...

The current state of health and safety in South Africa's mining industry. The Minerals Council Facts & Figures 2022 pocketbook states there has been dramatic improvement in health and safety performance recorded during 2022 for the first time in its history, the South African mining industry has recorded less than 50 lives lost in a …

JOHANNESBURG - An elevator carrying workers to the surface at a giant South African platinum mine plunged out of control killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operators said Tuesday.

The physical hazards in abandoned mines are the source of many safety and health risks associated with these mines. According to Walle and Jennings (2001), "risks" can be defined as chances that a hazard will cause the body harm, injury, or death. The hazards of abandoned mines vary from one region of historic mining to the other and …