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News24 reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) said it was saddened by a "tragic start to 2020" as three mine workers died while on duty last week.
According to the union, a locomotive driver was fatally injured in a mud rush at Harmony Gold. Amcu reported that “the worker went to inspect the box chute, which conveys ore into locomotive carriers, and for some reason yet unknown the box opened and overwhelmed him with collected ore, killing him. The Amcu comrade was from Lesotho and he leaves behind a wife and four children." A few days later, another mine worker was found dead underground after his shift at the Phakisa mine near Odendaalsrus in the Free State. A rock drill operator died that same week at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Bambanani Shaft near Rustenburg in a fall-of-ground incident, according to Amcu. "The union has been consistently calling for amendments to the Mine Health and Safety Act. But, yet again we see another breadwinner killed," Amcu said. It particularly lamented the number of workers killed at Harmony Gold, which it said had suffered ten fatalities in 2019.
- Read the original of the above report by Azarrah Karrim at News24
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