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Mining Weekly reports that Sibanye-Stillwater has restarted some of its operations following safety-related interventions and stoppages that were announced on 15 December.
Despite these interventions, however, another mineworker has died. A locomotive driver was killed in 2 Shaft on Wednesday at the company’s Driefontein gold mine near Carletonville, in Gauteng. Sibanye’s James Wellsted reported that a power outage appeared to have occurred on the locomotive level, which led to the electric locomotive stopping. During this outage, the locomotive driver exited the cab for reasons that have not yet been established, which appeared to have led to him being fatally struck by either the locomotive or a hopper. Wellsted confirmed that investigations into the incident were ongoing and that Sibanye was cooperating fully with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) and the relevant unions. He added that, although the section where the fatality occurred had been shut down, 2 Shaft remained operational. This was the first death at Sibanye’s operations this year, and followed the 18 fatalities recorded in 2021. On Thursday, trade union Solidarity also expressed shock over the latest fatality, suggesting that inspectors from the DMRE should consider closing down the entire Driefontein mine until Sibanye “can prove that it is safe to work in [its] mines”.
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