{"id":12013,"date":"2012-07-02T00:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/five-miners-die-at-gold-fields-mine-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-07-02T00:08:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T22:08:38","slug":"five-miners-die-at-gold-fields-mine-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/five-miners-die-at-gold-fields-mine-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Five miners die at Gold Fields mine in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 1<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Five miners died from smoke<br \/>\ninhalation at a Gold Fields mine in South Africa on<br \/>\nSaturday as they worked underground, the company said on Sunday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The deaths are a setback for the government and the industry<br \/>\nas they try to improve safety and reduce fatalities in South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s mines, which are the deepest in the world.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, for the first time in living memory, the country&#8217;s<br \/>\nmining sector recorded no &#8220;disaster&#8221;, defined as a single<br \/>\nincident in which four or more workers die.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen miners were admitted to hospital after Saturday&#8217;s<br \/>\nincident at the company&#8217;s KDC West mine, Gold Fields said in a<br \/>\nstatement. The company said the entire mine had been closed<br \/>\nuntil further notice.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly condemn the company for sending workers on<br \/>\novertime night shift when there is no ventilation,&#8221; Frans<br \/>\nBaleni, the general secretary of the National Union of<br \/>\nMineworkers, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold Fields is the world&#8217;s fourth largest gold producer.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda; Editing by Ed Stoddard and<br \/>\nAlison Williams)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, July 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Five miners died from smoke inhalation at a Gold Fields mine in South Africa on Saturday as they worked underground, the company said on Sunday. The deaths are a setback for the government and the industry as they try to improve safety and reduce fatalities in South Africa&#8217;s mines, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}