DJ Mineworker Killed At Gold Fields' Driefontein Mine - Union

Posted on: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:14:00 EDT


Symbols: GFI
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 16, 2009 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) --
GFI | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- A mineworker has been killed in an accident early Friday at gold producer Gold Fields Ltd.'s (GFI) Driefontein mine in South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers said.

The locomotive guard died in the mine's number two shaft, killed by hoppers while he was working, the union said.

More than 120 workers have been killed in mining incidents this year and the NUM said thousands more have "been sent home to die due to occupational diseases and injuries."

-By Robb M. Stewart, Dow Jones Newswires; +27 11 783 7848; robb.stewart@dowjones.com

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