Silicosis settlement: Miners win multi-million rand law suit
Top mining firms have agreed to pay about R500-million in damages to mineworkers with silicosis.
Employees and relatives of workers who have since died won a law suit against Anglo American and AngloGold for silicosis and silico-tuberculosis – lung diseases caused by inhalation of dust containing silica.
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Over 4000 claimants took to court in 2012, claiming to have contracted these illnesses from working in the mines.
The settlement will be managed by a trust which will oversee medical examinations of the victims.
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