Injury from fall of ground incidents is the most common occupational injury in the South African mining industry due to a prevalence of deep, high-stress mines in the country (the deepest mines can extend 3,500m below the surface). ... Fatality rate is shown at three decimal places, injury rate shown at two decimal places. 5. Root causes of ...

The South African mining industry has been, and continues to be, reliant on migrant labour from rural areas of South Africa and neighbouring Southern African countries. ... A later study of South African platinum miners measured a peak crude annual death rate of 21.1 per 1000 miners in 2003, which included deaths after leaving the …

The killings of more than 30 workers in the Marikana platinum mine have put the spotlight on working conditions in South Africa's mining industry. ... "The drop in fatality rates clearly shows that significant efforts have been made to improve the safety of South African mines, but a lot remains to be done in order to create a much-needed ...

1.1 South African mine safety Table 1 shows the statistics of accidents in the mining industry in South Africa in nd 2011 a 2012. A fatality rate and injury rate is included in the table, which indicates the rate of accidents per million worker-hours. Table 1: South African mining fatalities and injuries and their rates per commodity

To date, 38 work-related fatalities have been recorded in the South African mining industry, a significant drop from the 74 recorded last year, Mantashe said. The lowest ever number of...

Rock-related fatality trends in the South African gold mining industry decrease of the total rock-related fatality rate is 2.3 per cent per year and, considering the scatter of the data, it can be stated with 80 per cent confidence that the average decrease is between 1.0 per cent and 3.6 per cent per year.

The trends and principal causes of occupational fatalities and disasters (defined as six or more fatalities in one incident) in the South African mining industry are analysed. A miner who spends twenty years working underground faces a one in thirty chance of dying in an occupational accident. The gold mine fatality rate has improved …

mining sector, with mortality rates about 20 times higher than in other industrial sectors and that rockfalls accounted for approximately 75% of deaths. Leger, in 1991, stated that for South African gold mines deeper than 3,000 meters, rockfalls increase the mortality rate by three times the industry average (Faria, 2008).

Figure 2—Fatality and injury rates in South African coal mines, 1904–2005 ... Handbook of Occupational Health Practice in the South African Mining Industry. p. 161. Show more. Recommendations.

Recorded fatal and permanently disabling injuries in South African manufacturing industry – Overview, analysis and reflection New SA Accident stats-24-sent w corrections.docx 5 . 1 Introduction There are very few studies on South African accidents statistics. The …

Zero Harm: Keep the momentum going. By Mining Review Africa. Dec 18, 2019. Collectively, the South African mining industry has committed to ensuring a zero fatality rate by December 2020 and this focus was no less prominent in 2019 than it has been in prior years. Now, with a year to go before the deadline, is this target a reality or …

Mining fatalities is an age-old problem in South Africa. In 2003, the industry reported 270 deaths but this had declined to 128 by 2010. In 2020 and 2021, the industry reported 60 and 74 ...

The platinum mines reported 5 fatalities compared to 6 fatalities by the end of June in 2021 (17% decrease), the coal sector reported 3 fatalities compared to 4 …

Lead, mercury, and the poisonous legacy of mines in Africa ... Meanwhile, the lost-time injury frequency rate (LTIFR) fell on average for the 41 miners reporting this figure to 1.53 per million hours worked, down by 10.5% from 1.71 in 2019 and down from 2.17 in 2016. ... Mining Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Deals by Top Themes...

ABSTRACT:. A database was developed in 1990 to store and allow analysis of information on rockfall and rockburst fatal accidents that occur in the tabular orebody gold mines in South Africa. The information populating the database is extracted from the inquiry reports compiled by the inspectorate of the Department of Minerals and Energy. Also …

South Africa's mining industry (knock on a support pillar of wood) looks set to have by far its safest year yet. ... a more revealing data point is the fatality frequency rate — a ratio of ...

South African mining industry on track for a record low fatality rate in 2022. ... To date, 38 work-related fatalities have been recorded in the South African mining industry, a significant drop ...

The lowest ever number of fatalities recorded by the South African mining industry in any year was in 2019, when there were 51 fatalities. The industry's safety performance, however, worsened ...

Since then, the mining industry has become hugely important to the country, contributing roughly 219.5 billion South African Rand (roughly 12.8 billion U.S. dollars) …

The revenue of the top 40 global mining companies, which represent a vast majority of the whole industry, amounted to some 925 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. The net profit margin of the mining ...

The death toll in South Africa's mines so far in 2021 is 69, up from 48 a year earlier, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy said in a statement on Monday [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]

The fatality rates of the South African coal sector are more comparable to the national rates for Australian ... It is estimated that the safety performance of the South African mining industry must improve by at least 20% per year to reach by 2013, the average performance of Australia, US, and Canada (Ontario)14. In 2005 the best ever

The mining sector has recorded 51 fatalities in 2019, the lowest ever recorded in the South African mining industry. "This represents a 37% improvement, year on year, compared to 2018 fatalities," said Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe at a media briefing on the release of the 2019 mine health and safety statistics on Friday.

Statement on the release of the 2019 Mine Heatlh and Safety Statistics. The purpose of today's briefing is to officially release the 2019 occupational health and safety statistics for the mining industry. Together with our social partners in the mining industry – organised business and organised labour – we have assessed progress made on ...

South Africa's mining industry suffered 49 fatalities in 2022 – a 34% improvement on the 74 fatalities of 2021 and a record low, thereby continuing the …

The number of fatal injuries in the South African mining industry has been decreasing consistently since 2000. The lowest number of fatalities within this period was recorded in 2019 at 51.

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Figure 2—Fatality and injury rates in South African coal mines, 1904–2005. ... Handbook of Occupational Health Practice in the South African Mining Industry. p. 161. MHSC (SIMRAC). Editors ...

Women only recently were able to be employed as miners in the South African mining industry. It was and still is thought that mining is not a woman's job, although by 2017 at least 12% of miners were . ... [15,36], mining presents one of the highest rates of fatal occupational accidents among the industrial sectors .

Fatality numbers in South Africa's mining industry keep climbing. One of Harmony's Gold 's employees was fatally injured in a fall of ground related incident at its Masimong mine in Welkom in the Free State on Saturday 18 November 2017. An investigation into the fatality is underway. Management have expressed their sincere …