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Nov 18, 2014· Five of South Africa''s largest gold miners announced Tuesday the creation of a group that will look at compensation and medical care for people that have acquired occupational .

The settlement calls for the compensation of all eligible gold miners who suffered silicosis or tuberculosis and sets up a trust to provide medical examinations to miners and compensation payments. Benefits for eligible miners will be in the range from 10,000 to 500,000 South African Rand.

Jun 28, 2018· South Africa''s mineral resources have produced, and continue to produce, enormous economic wealth; yet decades of colonialism, apartheid, capital flight, and challenges in the neoliberal postapartheid era have resulted in high rates of occupational lung disease and low rates of compensation for exminers and their families. Given growing advocacy and activism of current and .

PDF | South African miners face an epidemic of occupational lung diseases. Despite a plethora of research on the mining industry, and the gold mining industry in particular, research impact ...

Meanwhile, South Africa''s Occupational Diseases and Mines and Works Act of 1973 mandated compensation of miners who contracted occupational lung disease, including silicosis, tuberculosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, entitling exminers to biennial benefit medical examinations (BMEs). Although this compen

May 03, 2018· Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. and other mining companies agreed to resolve a lawsuit filed by workers who said they contracted deadly lung diseases in South African gold mines in .

Occupational Asthma Reference. ..., Emphysema type in relation to silica dust exposure in South African gold miners [published erratum appears in Am Rev Respir Dis 1991 Nov;144(5):1223], Am Rev Respir Dis, 1991;143:, Keywords: ob, emphysema, silica, gold miner, miner, am, mine, silicosis, d, hi Known Authors. Eva Hnizdo If you would ...

South Africa''s wealthy and privileged owe a direct debt to those whose lives paid for the gold industry on which the South African economy was built. For 120 years, mining companies and the South African State have failed to protect miners from across southern Africa from harmful conditions resulting in .

Sep 21, 2016· South African gold miners can appeal silicosis ruling. ... which formed last year a group to look at compensation and medical care for workers who acquired occupational lung disease, ...

In June 2012, with support from Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the Gruber Foundation at Yale, and the GHJP, faculty traveled to South Africa to develop a comprehensive research agenda regarding compensation for silicosis and tuberculosis acquired through gold mining; unanswered questions about these diseases'' epidemiology and their interaction with HIV; and clinical ...

Sep 13, 2017· South Africa is a country of contrasts. Many people in its cities enjoy privileged lives working for multinational companies with workplace health, safety and wellbeing provisions that match the ...

May 03, 2018· South African gold producers agreed a 5 billion rand (400 million) class action settlement on Thursday with law firms representing thousands of miners .

Sep 01, 2019· South African gold mines have issued a notice calling on gold mineworkers, former mineworkers, or their dependants to consider their eligibility to claim for compensation for exposure to dangerous dust during the mineworker''s employment. The call follows a high court judgement in the Bongani Nkala and 67 others classaction suit which approved a settlement.

Jul 31, 2019· WASHINGTON, — The High Court of South Africa in Johannesburg granted final approval on July 26 of the settlement reached in May 2018 for thousands of South African gold .

Hnizdo E, SluisCremer GK, Abramowitz JA. Emphysema type in relation to silica dust exposure in South African gold miners. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1991 Jun; 143 (6):1241–1247. Hnizdo E, SluisCremer GK, Baskind E, Murray J. Emphysema and airway obstruction in nonsmoking South African gold miners with long exposure to silica dust.

Jul 09, 2015· South African mines have produced roughly 40 % of all gold ever mined on the planet. Consequently, South Africa''s miners are among the workers worst affected by silicosis and other occupational ...

Dec 14, 2018· Mining Weekly The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Abrahams Kiewitz Inc and Richard Spoor Attoneys, on behalf of thousands of mineworkers, last week reached a class action settlement with the Occupational Lung Diseases (OLD) Working Group, which represents various South African gold mining companies.

Sep 19, 2011· A series of studies on South African gold miners have revealed shocking silicosis rates. A June 2008 survey of gold miners from Lesotho, who had formerly been employed in the President Steyn mine in the neighbouring Free State, found silicosis rates to be as high as 25%, with accompanying high levels of tuberculosis.

the problem by reports from South Africa of the alarming incidence of and mortality from miners'' phthisis among miners in the developing Rand gold mines. Allied to these diseases were certain cases of pulmonary affections in dock labourers engaged in handling cargoes of dusty grain, in flax workers exposed to the inhalation of fine fibres, and in

Occupational Asthma Reference. Becklake MR, Irwig L, Kielkowski D, Webster I, ... From whole lung sections made routinely at all full autopsy examinations on South African gold miners, we selected 44 cases of emphysema and 42 controls without emphysema from among men 51 to 71 yr of age who died during 1980 and 1981. Exposure information was ...

Jan 24, 2013· The first theme addresses trends in silicosis in the South African goldmining industry over a period of 33 years, and the second explores the potential for occupational respiratory disease in the underresearched platinum and diamondmining sectors.

Jan 13, 2014· Mine workers in southern Africa have some of the highest rates of occupational lung disease in the world. These diseases, including silicosis and tuberculosis, acquired in the gold mines of South Africa have, over many decades, left hundreds of thousands of men disabled, in penury, or dead.

May 02, 2018· Mining is a major economic activity in many developing countries. In South Africa, mining of gold, coal and other natural resources has played a .

Abstract. South African miners face an epidemic of occupational lung diseases. Despite a plethora of research on the mining industry, and the gold mining industry in particular, research impact (including disease surveillance) on policy implementation and occupational health systems performance lags.
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