Silicosis scandal officials punished
Source: Xinhua |
August 7, 2010, Saturday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
TWENTY-THREE government officials and company managers have been punished after 200 workers were confirmed as suffering from silicosis in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said yesterday.
Altogether, 200 of 1,343 workers at the Hengsheng Metallurgy Ltd Co, Asia's largest industrial silicon producer, have been diagnosed with silicosis, an incurable lung disease, while another 262 workers need to be checked again in six months, the provincial work safety committee said.
Xu Changxing and Zhu Xujun, deputy general managers of the company, as well as Zhang Anzhou, head of the company's safety committee, have been detained and will face criminal charges for allegedly committing "serious accident crimes due to negligence," according to the committee's statement.
Assistance
Liu Zhenrong, the company's president and general manager, was punished with only a fine due to his cooperation in the investigation and assistance in workers' medical treatment.
Heads of Shibing County's disease control center, public health bureau, work safety bureau and environmental bureau received records of demerit in their administrative performance, while some other officials have been warned for negligence of duty.
Production at the company was suspended in early April and it was fined 700,000 yuan (US$103,400) three months later.
An investigation by the Ministry of Health and the provincial government found that no monitoring or medical examinations of workers had previously been carried out.
Altogether, 190 of the 200 hospitalized workers are receiving medical care at home.
Altogether, 200 of 1,343 workers at the Hengsheng Metallurgy Ltd Co, Asia's largest industrial silicon producer, have been diagnosed with silicosis, an incurable lung disease, while another 262 workers need to be checked again in six months, the provincial work safety committee said.
Xu Changxing and Zhu Xujun, deputy general managers of the company, as well as Zhang Anzhou, head of the company's safety committee, have been detained and will face criminal charges for allegedly committing "serious accident crimes due to negligence," according to the committee's statement.
Assistance
Liu Zhenrong, the company's president and general manager, was punished with only a fine due to his cooperation in the investigation and assistance in workers' medical treatment.
Heads of Shibing County's disease control center, public health bureau, work safety bureau and environmental bureau received records of demerit in their administrative performance, while some other officials have been warned for negligence of duty.
Production at the company was suspended in early April and it was fined 700,000 yuan (US$103,400) three months later.
An investigation by the Ministry of Health and the provincial government found that no monitoring or medical examinations of workers had previously been carried out.
Altogether, 190 of the 200 hospitalized workers are receiving medical care at home.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
