A worker died in a locomotive accident at Impala Platinum’s (Implats’) Impala Rustenburg 1 Shaft this week. Implats on Thursday said that, as far as it was aware, Nelso Thipe’s locomotive was travelling from the underground shaft tipping area towards the workings to collect another load of ore when another fully loaded locomotive en route to the tipping area seemingly failed to stop – against standard safety protocol – at the demarcated place, before entering the tipping area.
