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24 Jun 2016

Author:
SABC News (South Africa)

Botswana: 1 mine worker injured at BCL; union calls for govt. to look into miners safety and welfare

"Strong calls for Botswana to look into miners' welfare", 23 June 2016

The Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) has urged government to set up a bargaining council to safeguard the welfare of workers who suffer crippling and fatal injuries while working in the mines. The call came after one Bamangwato Concession Limited (BCL) worker suffered a broken hip bone after the ore-face he was working on collapsed and buried him under an avalanche of rocks following an underground blasting operation at the mine in Selebi Phikwe on Wednesday evening. The accident came just three weeks after another that left four workers dead and six critically injured...[see here]....In a statement...BCL spokesperson James Molosankwe said the injured worker was "responding well" to treatment at the mine hospital, but gave no details on the injuries. However, BMWU president Jack Tlhagale called for a thorough investigation of the circumstances of the accident and the mine’s safety systems.