South Crofty records zero lost time injuries in 2025

Building a mine back up from decades of silence means more people underground, more machinery on the move, and more ways for something to go wrong. Cornish Metals says that despite exactly that kind of ramp-up at South Crofty through 2025, not one lost time injury was recorded on site all year.

A busier mine, a clean record

Cornish Metals, the company working to reopen the historic South Crofty tin mine near Camborne, says 2025 brought materially increased underground and surface activity and a growing number of workers on site. Against that backdrop, the company recorded zero lost time injuries (LTIs) across the year, a result it puts down to the discipline and commitment of everyone involved in maintaining safety standards.

Cornish Metals describes the health and safety of its employees and contractors as the company’s first and most fundamental responsibility as work at the site continues to build up.

The numbers behind the year

Alongside the headline zero-LTI figure, the company has published its 2025 safety performance against its own targets for the year:

• Lost time injuries: 0 recorded, against a target of 0.
• Planned site inspections: 79 completed, against a target of 72.
• Safety Committee inspections: 3 completed, against a target of 6.
• Planned task observations: 331 completed (317 of which were formally logged), against a target of 240.
• Emergency Response Plan drills: 1 completed, against a target of 4.

Site inspections and task observations ran well ahead of target for the year. Safety Committee inspections and Emergency Response Plan drills came in below the number the company had set itself.

Two regulator visits, no enforcement action

The UK Health and Safety Executive carried out two planned regulatory inspections at South Crofty during 2025. Both concluded without any enforcement action being taken.

What happens next

Cornish Metals says it has committed to increasing the frequency and scope of both inspections and emergency response drills as the pace of underground and surface work at South Crofty continues to grow. The mine, closed since 1998, has been the subject of a long-running effort to bring it back into production, with the numbers of people and the amount of machinery on site only set to rise from here.

📷Credit: Cornish Metals