Thousands of miners, ex-employees and dependents of deceased miners will finally receive compensation for suffering through tuberculosis or silicosis because of working underground in South African gold mines, following Friday's historic court decision.. The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg approved the settlement of a lengthy class-action lawsuit.

Claimants win first round of South African silicosis class action. The first round in the highly publicised silicosis class action litigation in South Africa – which could cost the gold mining industry almost $3.25bn – was recently decided in the claimants' favour. Max Ebrahim at law firm Clyde & Co explains the case and its implications.

South Africa gave the green light on Friday for class action suits seeking damages from gold companies for up to half a million miners who contracted the fatal lung diseases silicosis and ...

The risk of silicosis was investigated in a cohort of 2,235 white South African gold miners who had, on average, 24 years of net service from 1940 to the early 1970s and who were followed up to 1991 for radiological signs of onset of silicosis (ILO category 1/1 or more). There were 313 (14%) miners …

The stated intention to eliminate silicosis from the South African goldmining industry as well as current programmes to find and compensate ex-miners with silicosis require an understanding of variation in silicosis prevalence across the industry. We aimed to identify the predictors of radiological silicosis in a large sample of working miners across gold mines in South Africa.

South Africa miners reach $400 million silicosis settlement with mining companies. JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African gold producers agreed a 5 …

Snapshot: In December 2012, former gold miners suffering from the lung disease silicosis filed a class action lawsuit in South Africa against 30 gold mining companies, including African Rainbow Minerals, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields and Harmony Gold.The plaintiffs alleged that the defending companies failed to take adequate safety measures to protect miners from exposure to …

South African gold mining firms plan to appeal against a High Court ruling that allowed class action suits seeking damages for up to half a million miners who contracted the fatal lung disease silicosis and tuberculosis, they said on Friday.

N The high prevalence (almost 20%) of silicosis among older in-service black mineworkers confirms the existence of a significant epidemic of silicosis in the South African goldmining industry. N Duration of exposure is an important determinant of the risk of silicosis within the narrow range of average dust concentrations measured. Consequently ...

Abstract. In a cross-sectional study of a working population of black South African gold miners, 1,197 men were studied with respiratory and occupational questionnaires, lung function tests, and chest radiographs. The study was designed to examine the effects of silicosis …

The most usual complication of silicosis, and a frequent cause of death, is tuberculosis. Those individuals with silicosis are three times more likely to develop tuberculosis, which is already at epidemic levels in South Africa. Silicosis is irreversible, …

Although South Africa has over a century of goldmining and silicosis experience, remarkably little is known about the prevalence of silicosis and specifically exposure-response relations for silicosis among black goldminers. 1, 2 Black goldminers are largely migrant contract workers originating from rural labour sending areas in Southern Africa, who have historically been employed in the ...

South Africa Ba c k g r o u n d: Eliminating silicosis is a priority of the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization. Prevalence is particularly high in developing countries. oB jectives: We describe trends in silicosis among South African gold miners who had had an

Risk of pulmonary tuberculosis relative to silicosis and exposure to silica dust in South African gold miners Occup Environ Med . 1998 Jul;55(7):496-502. doi: 10.1136/oem.55.7.496.

On 26 July 2019, the High Court approved a settlement between 20 goldmining companies operating in South Africa (including African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Harmony Gold) and representative plaintiffs in the silicosis class action, described as unprecedented in its scale and complexity.. The settlement establishes the Tshiamiso Trust worth …

Silicosis case. In October 2015, former workers on South Africa's gold mines took more than 30 companies to court. The mine workers asked the South Gauteng High Court for permission to bring a class action against the companies, on behalf of all miners who have silicosis and tuberculosis (TB) as a result of their exposure to silica dust since 1965, and of the families of all miners who have ...

South Africa: Silicosis Claims In The South African Mining Industry. Class action lawsuit involving 27,000 affected miners or their families may represent just 10% of the total number of silicosis sufferers in South Africa. The South African gold mining industry faces a number of challenges including falling gold prices, sticky labour pricing ...

Download South Africa S Gold Mines The Politics Of Silicosis books, Examines the silicosis crisis in the South African mining industry, and reveals how the rate of, often fatal, tuberculosis among black migrant miners was hidden for over a century. Our Precious Metal. Author: Wilmot Godfrey James

Background: Eliminating silicosis is a priority of the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization. Prevalence is particularly high in developing countries. Objectives: We describe trends in silicosis among South African gold miners who had had an autopsy between 1975 and 2007 and quantify the contributions of age at autopsy and employment duration to these trends.

The class action - whose settlement was the most far reaching ever in South Africa - was launched in 2012 on behalf of miners suffering from silicosis, an disease caused by inhaling silica dust ...

Background Despite their burden of a triple epidemic of silicosis, tuberculosis and HIV infection, little is known about the mortality experience of miners from the South African mining industry once they leave employment. Such information is important because of the size and dispersion of this population across a number of countries and the progressive nature of these diseases. Methods This ...

Block 5: TB and occupation in South Africa - Radiology Of Silica, Silicosis And Tuberculosis: RADIOLOGY OF SILICA, SILICOSIS AND TUBERCULOSIS: The combined effects of silica and tuberculosis will be described, beginning with their pathology and moving on to comparing the classic radiological features of tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis ...

Thus, the high proportion of South African gold miners with silicosis, many of whom are already burdened with tuberculosis and/or HIV, has far reaching implications in terms of health services that need to be prepared for increasing morbidity and mortality rates in both current and ex-miners. South Africa is committed to global efforts to ...

The most usual complication of silicosis, and a frequent cause of death, is tuberculosis. Those individuals with silicosis are three times more likely to develop tuberculosis, which is already at epidemic levels in South Africa. Silicosis is irreversible, progressive and incurable. About Motley Rice …

The silicosis class action in South Africa not only provided the first real test for the new court-made rules govern- ing class actions, but is one of the largest and most complex multi-class, multi-defendant, dispersed incident class actions the world has seen. The class action succeeded, culminating in a R5 billion settlement.

silicosis was distinctively elaborated in South African law. Between 1911 and 1950, no fewer than six judicial commissions,tenselectcommittees,and12actsofParliament

The Outline for a National Programme for the Elimination of Silicosis (NPES) provides recommendations for the necessary elements of NPES and national silicosis profile. To date, NPES have been established in Brazil, Chile, China, India, Peru, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam.

A key decision in 2016 by a South African judge allowed lawyers to launch the unprecedented class action on behalf of miners with silicosis, caused …

Dwadube suffers from silicosis, scarring of the lungs caused by fine dust inhaled underground. He is not alone. Up to 500,000 former mineworkers in South Africa …

South African silicosis. As early as 2006, Hausfeld lawyers and South African law firm Abrahams Kiewitz began to work on pioneering legal strategies to obtain justice and compensation for current and former mineworkers who worked on South African goldmines, the pillar of the South African state. Gold mining in South Africa dates back to the ...

The prevalence of silicosis was 18.3-19.9% depending on reader. Significant trends were found between the prevalence of silicosis and length of service, mean intensity of exposure, and cumulative exposure. CONCLUSION: Results confirm a large burden of silicosis among older black workers in the South African goldmining industry, which is likely ...

Many of the nearly half a million miners who contracted the fatal lung disease silicosis and tuberculosis, are from nearby countries who supplied labour to South African mines.