Diversified miner South32 has reported that an employee of a contract mining company, Modi Mining, died following an accident at subsidiary South Africa Energy Coal’s Ifalethu Colliery, on May 27.
South32 on May 29 said the area where the incident occurred had been immediately secured and the workforce withdrawn.
The site is being inspected by the relevant authorities and all activities at the colliery, in Mpumalanga, have been temporarily suspended.