955 Workers Rescued from South Africa Gold Mine<br />2, 2018<br />JOHANNESBURG — Nearly 1,000 miners who were trapped in a South African mine for more than 24<br />hours after a power outage have been safely evacuated, company officials said on Friday.<br />The Sibanye-Stillwater company, which manages the Beatrix gold mine in Free State Province, said<br />that the miners would be subjected to medical tests and counseling.<br />Unions for mine workers expressed concern that there was no functioning backup plan for evacuation after a storm knocked out power Wednesday night.<br />They also said that the episode underscored long-running problems with safety<br />and oversight at South Africa’s mines, where workers at some sites operate at depths of more than two miles below the surface.<br />Food and water were delivered to the trapped miners while they waited for power to be restored so that elevators could ferry them to the surface.
