AMCU calls for tougher mine safety regulation
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) on Tuesday called for greater accountability for mine safety and tougher regulation across the mining industry, following a fatality at Harmony’s Kusasalethu mine, on Friday.
An employee died following a shaft-related incident at the mine, near Carletonville.
AMCU explained that an assistant to an onsetter, which is a person in charge of winding operations through the main shaft, was killed during conveyance of material cars at the 105 level station. One assistant died from his injuries, while another was admitted to hospital.
The union pointed out that the incident brought the number of fatalities at Harmony’s operations for the year to date to six. The first five fatalities occurred at the Bambanani Shaft, and the Doornkop, Phakisa and Tshepong mines.
“AMCU calls for direct intervention from the Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe,” said union president Joseph Mathunjwa in a statement.
Provisional fatalities in the mining industry for the year to date stands at 24, and the number of reportable injuries at 1 156, according to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy.
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