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S. Africa Mine Union Leader Vows Safety Review

NPR

Published October 4, 2007 at 10:37 AM MDT

Peter Bailey, chairman of health and safety for the National Union of Mine Workers in South Africa, discusses rescue developments at the Elandsrand gold mine in Carletonville, a town in South Africa's mining heartland near Johannesburg. More than half of the 3,200 men and women were stranded more than a mile underground when the one elevator that carries miners to the surface broke down after an accident. Most have now been pulled to safety. Bailey speaks with Deborah Amos.