THE National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called on the government and Lily Mine owners to come on board on the initiative aimed at retrieving the container with the three trapped miners.
ArcelorMittal accused of not doing enough to retrieve workers trapped under rubble following explosion
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Johannesburg - The well-being of three employees missing at ArcelorMittalâs plant in Vanderbijlpark has raised great concern.
The workers are reportedly missing after an explosion at the plant at around 2am on Wednesday and allegations have suggested that the three are trapped under the rubble inside the plant.
Speaking outside the plant on Wednesday, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said ArcelorMittal had no rescue team on site.
âWorkers have volunteered and are risking their lives to go and try and retrieve workers from under the collapsed building.â
ArcelorMittal workers die after building collapses on them during an explosion
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Johannesburg - The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has confirmed the death of three workers at an ArcelorMittal plant.
This came as a result of a building collapsing on top of them. This building reportedly collapsed after an explosion at 2am on Wednesday morning.
Search and rescue teams were dispatched to the plant, however, it was later confirmed that they have been found dead.
“The families have been waiting and anxiously hoping that their loved ones would be found alive. Unfortunately that was not to be. We send our deepest condolences to the family and friends of those who have passed away,” Numsa said in statement.
Another court battle is looming in the drawn-out business rescue process of Mpumalanga’s Lily and Barbrook gold mines after business rescue practitioner, Rob Devereux, was accused of doing a “180-degree turn” on publishing plans in favour of a company that has been waiting on the wings to buy the mines.
Arqomanzi appeared likely to acquire the mines from Australian company, Vantage Goldfields (VGO), after making a R250 million offer to Devereux, and becoming the major independent creditor of VGO’s subsidiary, Vantage Goldfields SA (VGSA), after convincing Standard Bank to cede VGSA’s loan of R389 million to the company.
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Five years after the collapse of a support pillar that took the lives of three workers at Vantage Goldfields’ Lily mine in Mpumalanga, thereâs light at the end of the tunnel for the company. The 2016 tragedy brought an end to mining operations at Lily and its sister mine, Barbrook, which were then placed in business rescue.
The bodies of Solomon Nyirenda, Yvonne Mnisi and Pretty Nkambule remain buried a Lily mine, and the only way to recover them is to sink a new decline shaft 50 metres below the surface to recover the container in which they were working at the time of the collapse.