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Fin24 reports that the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) has placed a prohibition notice on Coega Steel, following a furnace explosion that it failed to report.
This followed an anonymous tip-off, which included pictures of a Ceoga Steel employee with burns on the employee’s hands and face. The incident allegedly happened on 22 August, during a night shift. "The life-threatening incident, which left employees traumatised, revealed that a total of five employees were injured on the day. All these employees sustained multiple burns all over their bodies from face, neck, chest, head, hands [and] ankles due to the explosion," the DEL said in a statement. After finding that Coega Steel had not complied with health and safety regulations, the DEL's inspectors gave the company a prohibition notice, ordering it to halt production at its furnace department where the explosion had happened. Apart from failing to report the incident and starting operations immediately after it happened, the DEL said Coega Steel had not taken steps to ensure there was no re-occurrence of a similar explosion. The DEL’s Eastern Cape head of department, Nomfundo Douw-Jack, said investigations into the explosion were being conducted.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Penelope Mashego at Fin24
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