PUNE: The condition of two workers affected by Wednesday’s chemical leak at a Jubilee Life Sciences plant in Nira village was critical on Thursday, with one of them on ventilator support.

2.78 million workers die from occupational accidents and work-related diseases each year warns this new report released by International Labour Organisation (ILO). It attributes stress, excessively-long working hours and disease to worker casualties every year.

A 38-year-old mineworker died on Monday at Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited in Doornkop, outside Johannesburg.

She was certified dead on the scene.

At a time when multiple agencies are involved in the rescue of 15 miners trapped in a rathole mine in Meghalaya, data tabled in the Lok Sabha earlier this week revealed that 377 workers involved in

At least four laborers were killed and nine others injured in a coal mine explosion in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province, local reports said on Monday.

An explosion at a chemical plant in China's southwestern province of Sichuan has killed 19 people and injured 12, the local government said on Friday.

AMARAVATI: Six workers died in a poisonous gas leak at a private steel mill rolling unit in Anantapuram district on Thursday, police said.

Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman said he was "deeply saddened and traumatised" to have lost so many mineworkers at the mine's operations.

Parliament's portfolio committee on mineral resources is demanding answers from Sibanye-Stillwater's managers on Tuesday after the death of four miners, and the disappearance of at least one more.

Two people have been killed following a "seismic related fall" at one of Harmony Gold Mining Company's mine's in Welkom, the company said on Tuesday.

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