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- RATE RATE ALL MINES
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- CHAPTER THREE MAIN SAFETY HAZARDS IN MINES 3.1 BACKGROUND
- TABLE 5: BREAKDOWN OF ALL INJURIES INTO MAIN CATEGORIES TYPE OF MINE INJURED KILLED
COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE MINING INDUSTRY 19 TABLE 2: ACCIDENT DATA 1984 - 1993 TYPE OF MINE YEAR FATALATIES FATALATY INJURIES INJURY RATE RATE ALL MINES 1984 740 1.01 15528 21.20 1985 706 0.94 14820 19.60 1986 800 1.02 12709 16.30 1987 753 0.97 11473 14.71 1988 674 0.91 11357 15.38 1989 735 0.99 10097 13.63 1990 675 1.05 9858 15.38 1991 604 0.98 9103 14.74 1992 552 1.02 8801 16.19 1993 578 1.03 8532 15.21 GOLD MINES 1984 588 1.15 13736 26.90 1985 539 1.03 13168 25.10 1986 702 1.27 11624 21.10 1987 547 0.98 9969 17.87 1988 510 0.97 9576 18.14 1989 549 1.06 8561 16.46 1990 526 1.25 8195 19.43 1991 461 1.19 7571 19.51 1992 407 1.12 7585 20.94 1993 418 1.13 7375 20.00 COAL MINES 1984 73 0.63 840 7.20 1985 93 0.78 806 6.80 1986 66 0.55 709 5.90 1987 121 1.05 550 4.86 1988 53 0.50 435 4.07 1989 54 0.52 361 3.50 1990 50 0.52 404 4.21 1991 42 0.56 361 4.80 1992 46 0.66 339 5.17 1993 90 1.71 279 5.32 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE MINING INDUSTRY 20 TABLE 3 INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STATISTICS Fatal accidents in mining operations COUNTRY YEAR NUMBER OF FREQUENCY PER FATALITIES 1000 WORKERS Australia 1990 3 0.21 Belgium 1990 0 0.00 Canada 1991 26 0.24 Czechoslovakia 1990 49 0.44 France 1990 1 0.05 Germany 1989 39 0.28 India 1991 265 0.37 Malaysia 1991 9 0.27 Pakistan 1991 97 2.10 Papua New Guinea 1991 20 2.04 Peru 1991 108 1.05 Poland 1990 111 0.29 Spain 1991 30 0.38 South Africa 1991 726 1.05 Turkey 1990 902 6.90 United Kingdom 1990 11 0.16 United States 1991 95 0.25 Yugoslavia 1991 178 1.23 Zimbabwe 1991 40 0.73 Source: Compiled from various sources COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE MINING INDUSTRY 21 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO SAFETY AND HEALTH IN THE MINING INDUSTRY 22 CHAPTER THREE MAIN SAFETY HAZARDS IN MINES 3.1 BACKGROUND It has been established in Chapter 2.2 that accident statistics for South African mines compare unfavourably with data from most other countries in the world. Here the intention is to analyse the details of the data in order to identify the main safety problems of the industry. The main objective is to establish the absolute hazards as opposed to making comparison only on the basis of accident rates (i.e. incidence per 1 000 employed). This will be done using the data provide by the GME for the period 1st January to 31st December 1993. The accident records are tabulated in various forms; breaking down the information by commodity, by geographical region and, in each case, the accidents are classified into various types. Furthermore, the type of mine is identified (i.e. surface operation or underground mining) and, in the case of underground mines, incidents occurring underground and on the surface are separated. The breakdown of the data allows the identification of the most hazardous mine types and within them, the pinpointing of the type of accidents that occur most frequently and/or are responsible for most of the injuries. The first step in this analysis is to look at the overall picture and examine the relative importance of underground and surface operations. TABLE 5: BREAKDOWN OF ALL INJURIES INTO MAIN CATEGORIES TYPE OF MINE INJURED KILLED TOTAL Nr. % Nr. % Nr. % Opencast Mines 47 0,6 9 1,5 56 0,6 Underground Mines: Incidents on Surface 776 9,1 35 6,0 811 8,9 Underground Mines: Incidents Underground 7692 90,3 542 92,5 8234 90,5 Underground Mines: All Incidents 8468 99,4 577 98,5 9045 99,4 TOTAL 8515 100,0 586 100,0 9101 100,0 This breakdown reveals that the overwhelming majority of accidents, some 99,4% of all injuries and deaths occur at or in underground mines. This result is partly due to the relative unimportance of surface mining in South Africa and partly attributable to the inherently safer nature of this type of operation. Thus, while injuries do occur in opencast mines, underground mines are far more hazardous. Logically, therefore, most of the attention in the report is devoted to underground operations. Yüklə 1,07 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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