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Wesizwe reports first fatality at Bakubung

20th October 2014

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Work on the shaft sinking operations on the main and ventilation shafts at the Bakubung platinum mine site, in Rustenburg, was suspended after Wesizwe on Monday reported its first fatality.

A contractor employed as a jumbo operator was fatally injured on October 17 during the shaft sinking process at the mine, with early investigations indicating that the worker had been hit by a metal object that fell 22 m down the mine shaft.

The contractor had been part of a team completing cleaning processes, loading broken rock at the bottom of the shaft and in the process of slinging a jumbo drill rig.

Operations at the shaft had been halted pending the outcome of a full investigation to determine the root causes of the incident, and the subsequent presentation to the Department of Mineral Resources.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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