Work safety still 'grim'
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June 7, 2010, Monday
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CHINA'S work safety conditions remain grim with the number of accidents too high, illegal production still posing challenges and safety management still lax, a senior official said yesterday.
Yang Yuanyuan, deputy chief of the State Administration of Work Safety, made the remarks at a forum in Beijing.
In the first five months this year, 499 people died or were missing in 36 major workplace accidents such as coal mine floods and gas explosions, a rise of nearly 40 percent from the same period a year ago, Yang said.
Notably, five severe accidents, each with a death toll of more than 30, had happened so far this year, costing 181 lives, up nearly 70 percent year on year, he said.
Yang said the situation reflected poor enforcement of safety rules, and enterprises' pursuit of output at the expense of safety.
He said the government would make continuous efforts to bring such accidents under control.
Meanwhile, rescuers have retrieved a body from a flooded coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province, and were still pumping out water yesterday in a bid to reach 11 miners still trapped.
The Donggou Coal Mine run by Jincheng Anthracite Mining Group in Zezhou County, Jincheng City, was flooded at 5am last Thursday. Of the 86 miners in the pit, 75 were evacuated.
At least nine pumps were draining the flooded pit yesterday. By 8pm on Saturday, about 20,000 cubic meters of water had been pumped out and the water level had dropped by 14.9 meters.
Cave-ins and silt in the water have hampered the search effort, rescuers said.
Yang Yuanyuan, deputy chief of the State Administration of Work Safety, made the remarks at a forum in Beijing.
In the first five months this year, 499 people died or were missing in 36 major workplace accidents such as coal mine floods and gas explosions, a rise of nearly 40 percent from the same period a year ago, Yang said.
Notably, five severe accidents, each with a death toll of more than 30, had happened so far this year, costing 181 lives, up nearly 70 percent year on year, he said.
Yang said the situation reflected poor enforcement of safety rules, and enterprises' pursuit of output at the expense of safety.
He said the government would make continuous efforts to bring such accidents under control.
Meanwhile, rescuers have retrieved a body from a flooded coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province, and were still pumping out water yesterday in a bid to reach 11 miners still trapped.
The Donggou Coal Mine run by Jincheng Anthracite Mining Group in Zezhou County, Jincheng City, was flooded at 5am last Thursday. Of the 86 miners in the pit, 75 were evacuated.
At least nine pumps were draining the flooded pit yesterday. By 8pm on Saturday, about 20,000 cubic meters of water had been pumped out and the water level had dropped by 14.9 meters.
Cave-ins and silt in the water have hampered the search effort, rescuers said.
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