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BusinessLive reports that SA’s mines deaths fell to a record low of 51 during 2019, marking the success of increased focused on safety in the mineral sector, which has some of the world’s deepest mines.
The industry had 81 fatalities in 2018. “This is the lowest level ever in the industry,” mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe indicated at a briefing on Friday. The one area of concern in the latest data is the 67% increase in fatalities in the platinum sector, where the number of deaths increased to 20 in 2019 from 12 previously. Platinum company bosses had committed to speaking to their peers in other minerals and hold safety summits to reverse the trend, said the department’s chief inspector of mines, David Msiza. The leading causing of deaths in SA mining remained falls of ground, which is when a tunnel or working face collapses. During 2019 there were no disasters, which the department defines as accidents in which five or more employees are killed.
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