JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) JSE-listed gold producer DRDGold on Thursday announced that one of its workers had been found dead at the mine’s underground operations at the No 6 shaft at the Blyvooruitzicht gold mine, near Carletonville.
The man was reported missing midafternoon yesterday, and his body was recovered from the loading station’s loading flask at about 23:00 Wednesday night. The emplomobile crushers price in south africayee was an operator on the shaft’s underground ore loading station, some 1 900 m below surfacballmill sales in south africae.
The mine stated that initial indications were that the worker had not been wearing the requicrushing and screening washing machinered full-body safety harness.
The man’s safety helmet, cap lamp, and lamp belt were also found at the loading station.
The mine added that it was mandatory for all employees to wear this safety gear when working underground.
Investigations into the incident were under way.
“Five employees, including the most recently deceased, have died in work-related incidents at DRDGold’s South African mines since the beginning of this year. Two employees died in seismicity-related rockfalls underground at Blyvooruitzicht, and last month two employees died from asphyxiation at the East Rand Proprietary Mines, in Boksburg,” the mine said.
The National Union of Mineworkers noted in an e-mailed statement that “DRDGold’s mine deaths are rising at a very high rate”.