Mining Weekly reports that on Tuesday the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) called for greater accountability for mine safety and tougher regulation across the mining industry.  

This followed a fatality on Friday at Harmony’s Kusasalethu mine.  An employee died following a shaft-related incident at the mine, near Carletonville.  Amcu explained that an assistant to an onsetter was killed during the 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,” the union’s president Joseph Mathunjwa said in a statement.

• Read the original of the above report at Mining Weekly
• Read Amcu’s press statement in the above regard at Amcu News

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