Perth-headquartered mining services contractor Perenti has confirmed one of its employees has been killed in an underground mining incident in West Africa.
Perth-headquartered mining services contractor Perenti has confirmed one of its employees has been killed in an underground mining incident in West Africa.
Perenti told the market that an incident occurred at the Mana mine in Burkina Faso which resulted in the fatality of an employee from its African Underground Mining Services subsidiary.
Its 100 per cent owned subsidiary is the underground mining contractor for Endeavour Mining at the London-based company’s Mana mine, which it has owned since 2020.
“Perenti expresses its heartfelt sympathies to the family, friends and workmates of our colleague involved in the incident,” it said in an ASX statement.
“This loss will be profoundly felt across the local communities in Burkina Faso and our workforce more broadly.
“We will work closely with Endeavour Mining and Burkinabe authorities to thoroughly investigate this incident and address the findings.”
The fatal incident comes a year after Perenti confirmed that two of its employees through its Barminco subsidiary were fatally injured during an incident in February 2023.
Prior to that incident, Perenti reported the death of two workers also under its Barminco brand at Zone 5 copper mine in Botswana in May 2022.
In the ASX statement, Perenti advised that underground mining operations at the Endeavour-owned Mana mine had been temporarily suspended. It said the incident would not have a material impact on its FY24 guidance.
Perenti’s shares were trading down by 0.58 per cent to 85.5 cents apiece at 12.10PM AWST.
