Engineering News reports that the Department of Employment and Labour's (DEL's) inquiry into the events that led to the 2018 fatal incident at Rheinmetall Denel Munition's facility in Macasser, in the Western Cape, is set to resume from 19 to 22 October.
This will be the second sitting since the explosion at the munitions plant resulted in the deaths of nine workers. The DEL ordered the establishment of a Section 32 inquiry to investigate occupational health and safety violations, and appointed Mphumzi Dyulete as the presiding inspector. The inquiry could not continue in 2020 owing to Covid-19 restrictions. Seventeen witnesses are lined up to give evidence. "Once the commission of inquiry has established what happened, it will compile a report and recommendations to the department’s chief inspector who, in turn, will hand over the report to the National Prosecutions Authority for consideration,” Dyulete indicated.
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