In what was otherwise a challenging year for SA’s mining sector amid a worsening power crisis and rail failures, the industry managed to reduce worker fatalities to a record low.
“There is a desire for zero harm, the way to that is through zero fatality, people must go to work and come back home safely,” Mantashe said. The industry reported a total of 1,946 serious injuries in 2022, down from 2,123 in 2021. Over the past three years there have been no major mine disasters or accidents involving the deaths of at least five people
The statistics show the most significant progress recorded is in the reduction of deaths from fall-of-ground accidents, which declined to six from 20 a year earlier. No machinery related fatalities were recorded in 2022 compared with three in 2021. Key interventions were the implementation of entry examinations and daily safety checks from 2009. In 2012, netting and bolting of tunnel roofs and walls were introduced and the use of steel nets has become a common feature in SA’s deep-level mines.
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