Dereliction of duty to blame for 73 deaths
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A DUMP site landslide that killed 73 people and left four others missing in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in December was an “extraordinarily serious” safety accident caused by human error, a State Council investigation team said yesterday.
The team concluded the accident was caused by the improper storage of construction waste, and the lack of an efficient drainage system at the landfill site.
The disaster was a safety accident due to dereliction of duty, rather than a natural geological movement, the report said.
As of January 14, 2.78 million cubic meters of waste soil had been removed from the site. Seventeen people injured in the incident had received treatment, and 4,630 employees in 90 companies affected had been relocated.
The team identified 110 people with responsibilities for the landslide, 53 of whom have been put under “coercive measures” that may include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention or arrest.
The report recommended that the license of Shenzhen Yixianglong, the company managing the site, be revoked and company executives barred from executive posts in the sector. Two other companies should face fines and other punishments.
The December 20 accident destroyed 33 buildings with a direct economic loss of 880 million yuan (US$132 million).
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