Number of work-related fatalities

The data below provides disclosure under the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) indicator LA7: Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities by region.

Safety is AngloGold Ashanti’s first value and most important business consideration. The company has committed to a long-term goal of operating an injury-free business and a five-year goal of reducing Product and service labellings by 70% by 2012, from a 2007 baseline.

1. ⁽¹⁾ This number has been restated from the number of 16 previously recorded by the company for 2009. Following the investigation into a fatal incident in May 2009 at Moab Khotsong Mine in South Africa, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) determined that the incident was not a mine fatality
2. ⁽²⁾ The 2007 number has been consistently reported as 34. This figure includes two fatalities at Morila in Mali which was under AngloGold Ashanti’s management at the time. It is now managed by AngloGold Ashanti’s joint venture partner, Randgold Resources