Man confronts mining company for workplace negligence Tuesday 26 February 2019 - 5:53am In a David versus Goliath story, a South African man is taking on Canadian mining giant, Ivanhoe.
Andrew Haskins was working at one of Ivanhoe Mines subsidiary's operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2017 when an accident changed his life. Haskins was a boilermaker and rigger in the mining industry for over 40 years. On 9 November 2017, Haskins was working at a copper mine in the DRC, employed by Kamoa-Copper SA, a subsidiary of Ivanhoe Mines. He claims he was injured after being given an instruction to install a pump using the wrong equipment.