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Mining Weekly reports that Sibanye-Stillwater has confirmed that an employee died following a tramming incident at its Driefontein gold mine, in Carletonville on the West Rand, last week.
According to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), a loco was tramming towards the 48 level west internal tip at the Hlanganani shaft when it abruptly came to the stop. After a period, a loco guard went to investigate and found that the loco had driven into a backfill pipe. The pipe pushed against the screen of the loco cab, pinning the driver inside. The driver was declared deceased underground. Amcu pointed out that this marked the twelfth fatality reported in the mining sector this year, a considerable increase from the five fatalities recorded during the same period last year. “Despite the industry’s self-congratulatory reports of a 24% reduction in fatalities in 2024, with 42 deaths compared to 55 in 2023, these numbers are cold comfort to the families and communities who continue to lose their loved ones to corporate negligence,” it stated.
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