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Workplace death toll set to soar in China
By Fu Jing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-14 05:47
Workplace deaths and injuries are expected to continue rising in China for
years to come amidst an already-grave work safety record.
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Rescuers wait at
the pit entrance before going down to rescue victims after the blast in
the Shenlong Coal Mine in Fukang, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,
yesterday.[newsphoto]
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Administration of Work Safety based the warning on the fact that China will
accelerate industrialization in the years leading to 2020.
"International experience and lessons from developed countries have already
proved that in this phase of industrialization, it is easy to see occurrences of
death and injury in the workplace," said Administration Vice-Minister Wang
Xianzheng, who headed the research team.
The latest disaster happened at the Shenlong Coal Mine in the Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region, where 83 miners perished, said Wang Dexue, another
Administration vice-minister. The agency attributed that disaster to over-mining
and unauthorized production.
The research also found that when a country's per-capita gross domestic
product is between US$1,000 and US$3,000, the rise in workplace deaths and
injuries is difficult to curb.
A group of 14 researchers made that finding after three years of research
into the work safety records of industrialized countries such as the United
States and Japan, said Huang Shengchu, president of the China Coal Information
Institute, who headed the group.
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