Two workers were critically injured when they were thrown nearly twenty meters by jets of water when a water main atop a mine dump exploded near Orkney in the North West Province late yesterday.
The cause of the incident and the series of events leading up to it remain uncertain.
Common cause information indicates that the men had been installing a water pipe on top of the mine dump to assist with the processing of chemicals. The water main exploded and the rushing water propelled the two, who were standing near it, into the air.
Netcare911 Paramedics arrived at the scene to find the two men lying nearly twenty meters from the main. Both had sustained serious facial trauma and head injuries. They were treated and stabilised at the scene and transported by ambulance to a nearby medical facility for further care.