Colliery flood cuts off 28 miners
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November 22, 2010, Monday
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TWENTY-EIGHT miners were trapped in a colliery flood in southwest China's Sichuan Province yesterday in the latest mining accident to hit the nation.
The accident happened at 11am in Weiyuan County of Neijiang City.
A total of 41 miners were underground when a pit at the Batian coal mine was flooded.
Thirteen managed to escape, said Lin Shucheng, chief of the provincial work safety bureau. He said rescuers had begun pumping water from the pit by early afternoon.
"We have sent four trucks of pumping equipment from Chengdu to help the rescue work," Liu said.
Medical workers were standing by to provide first-aid.
Lin said the Batian mine had undergone renovation to increase its annual output to 60,000 tons from the designed 50,000 tons. "But all its operation was legal. Its business license and production permits are valid," he said.
A similar flood trapped three workers prospecting for an iron mine in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Saturday night. Rescue work was continuing yesterday.
China's mines are the deadliest in the world, with more than 2,600 people killed in mining accidents in 2009 alone. However, that was sharply lower than the 7,000 deaths in 2003.
Mining fatalities have decreased in recent years as the government closed many illegal mines or absorbed them into state-owned companies.
China saw an amazing mine rescue earlier this year, when 115 workers were pulled from a flooded mine in Shanxi Province after more than a week underground. The miners survived by eating sawdust, tree bark, paper and coal.
The accident happened at 11am in Weiyuan County of Neijiang City.
A total of 41 miners were underground when a pit at the Batian coal mine was flooded.
Thirteen managed to escape, said Lin Shucheng, chief of the provincial work safety bureau. He said rescuers had begun pumping water from the pit by early afternoon.
"We have sent four trucks of pumping equipment from Chengdu to help the rescue work," Liu said.
Medical workers were standing by to provide first-aid.
Lin said the Batian mine had undergone renovation to increase its annual output to 60,000 tons from the designed 50,000 tons. "But all its operation was legal. Its business license and production permits are valid," he said.
A similar flood trapped three workers prospecting for an iron mine in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Saturday night. Rescue work was continuing yesterday.
China's mines are the deadliest in the world, with more than 2,600 people killed in mining accidents in 2009 alone. However, that was sharply lower than the 7,000 deaths in 2003.
Mining fatalities have decreased in recent years as the government closed many illegal mines or absorbed them into state-owned companies.
China saw an amazing mine rescue earlier this year, when 115 workers were pulled from a flooded mine in Shanxi Province after more than a week underground. The miners survived by eating sawdust, tree bark, paper and coal.
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