ANGLO Coal is showing that it is proactive about the safety of its employees by taking concerns of legionnaire's disease seriously.
A contract electrician at Grasstree Mine who had previously been working at the Grasstree Gas Plant, had been admitted to hospital with legionnaire's disease three weeks ago.
But the mining company says it did not have confirmation of whether the affected contractor had returned a positive result for the disease, which is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria.
Also, there is no evidence to suggest that, if a positive result was returned, the tradesman, who had working on a number of locations over the past few months, contracted the illness while working at the mine site.
Despite this, an Anglo Coal spokesman says that as a standard operating procedure, water monitoring is regularly carried out at the Grasstree Gas Plant.
There have been no irregularities in water samples collected and the mine management immediately informed its employees and is providing information on the case as it comes to hand.
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