The prohibition notice that the Labour Department issued against pet food producer Epol earlier this week remains in force as investigations into Monday’s gruesome death of an employee at the company’s Pretoria West plant are still underway.
The deceased worker was standing above a pit hole in the silo when a conveyor belt was started. He was subsequently conveyed into a pit, where he was covered by the raw product from the silos resulting in his untimely death.
Investigations by Labour inspectors are continuing in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and a report will be forwarded shortly to the Offices of the National Prosecuting Authority and the Department’s Chief Inspector Occupational Health and Safety for consideration.
Labour Spokesman Page Boikanyo today (Thur) confirmed that the prohibition notice remained in force at the plant. He said the notice was forbidding entrance of any silo where the prescribed measures have not been complied with in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 85 of 1993, as amended..
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