Mining Weekly reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has expressed shock over a health and safety incident at African Rainbow Minerals’ (ARM's) Modikwa platinum mine, in Limpopo, and has urged the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy to investigate the incident.

The union reports that on 10 June two employees working for a development contractor at the mine were injured when they were travelling underground. The NUM claims a wheel meant to be fitted on a load haul dump machine struck the female employees and caused severe injury. The union says one employee was killed instantly, while the other died later in hospital. However according to ARM, there was only one fatality.

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