JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Uranium producer Paladin reported on Friday that one off the three contract workers injured at its Kayelekera project earlier in the week, had died.

Three subcontractors were injured in a flash fire at the Malawi construction site when solvent cleaning fluid used in a steel tank was ignited by an external source.

The injured men were transferred to a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, for burns treatment.

Paladin stated that the two other men remained in a stable condition.

Malawian government departments had been informed of the contractor’s death.

Paladin Energy holds a 85% stake in the Kayelekera project, and owns the Langer Heinrich mine, in Namibia.

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