PT Freeport Indonesia again mourning. A miners buried Friday wet ore material in underground mines Deep Ore Zone (DOZ), on Saturday at around 18:29 CET eventually died in hospital Tembagapura International SOS.

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PT Freeport Indonesia again mourning. A miners buried Friday wet ore material in underground mines Deep Ore Zone (DOZ), on Saturday at around 18:29 CET eventually died in hospital Tembagapura International SOS.

PT Freeport Indonesia in a press release on Saturday (06/01/2013) night, said Herman Wahid died after undergoing treatment in the ICU Hospital ISOS Tembagapura.

Herman's body plans to be sent to his hometown in South Sulawesi on Sunday morning. In a press release, President Director of PT by Freeport Indonesia, Rozik B. Soetjipto send our condolences to the family and the people closest. According to him, Herman has worked in the mining company for 9 years and leaves a wife and 3 children.

"We will do everything we can do to assist families in dealing with the situation and this ordeal," he explained. Rozik also stated that it is conducting an investigation related to the incident because the area around the location of the incident in circumstances that do not comply with safety protocols were approved by PT Freeport Indonesia in dealing with wet mud.

Related to the incident, PT Freeport Indonesia confirmed in a press release that there is no connection with the collapse of tunnel incidents Big Gossan which is about 2 kilometers from the scene. As reported earlier on Friday, at about 13:40 CEST, Herman Wahid who was driving the truck ore mines buried material wet (wet muck) at the loading point 1 charlie west, DOZ underground mine, Mile 74, District Tembagapura.

Police Chief Sector Tembagapura, AKP Sudirman contacted via cell phone this evening states already do if the crime scene, which is about 3 kilometers from the mouth of the tunnel DOZ. According to him, the police would still perform the investigation and examination of witnesses and other related parties. "I've arrived at the scene and there was an underground mine maintenance activities as much material left in a potentially dangerous and if not removed," he explained.

On 14 May, an incident occurred at the Big Gossan underground mine, when the classroom 11 Quality Management of Services (QMS) Underground mines buried under the rubble of roof rock weighing 500 tons which resulted in 28 workers died and 10 others suffered severe injuries and minor