Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills 11 Miners In Northern China

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<p> Carbon monoxide poisoning kills 11 miners in northern China </p>< br />

<p>2013-03-02 05:30:42 GMT+7 (ICT) </p><br /> <p>ZHANGJIAKOU, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- At least eleven workers were killed Thursday when a small fire spread toxic carbon monoxide throughout a coal mine in northern China, local authorities said on Friday. Two other miners remained missing and are feared to have been killed as well.<br /></p><br /><p>The incident happened at around 8 p.m. local time on Thursday when an air compressor and wood caught fire at a coal mine in Huailai County near Zhangjiakou, a city in northern Hebei Province. The fire spread carbon monoxide throughout the mine where thirteen people were working.<br /></p><br /><p>"The search-and-rescue team has so far recovered the bodies of eleven miners who died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning," said a spokesman for the country's State Administration of Work Safety. "Two people are still missing. The rescue work is continuing to find those workers."<br /></p><br /><p>The state-run Xinhua news agency said the mine belongs to Zhangkuang Group, a subsidiary of Jizhong Energy Group Co., Ltd. It said Zhao Heping, the general manager of Zhangkuang Group, has been removed from his post while an investigation by local authorities is being carried out.<br /></p><br /><p>Safety conditions at mines in China have significantly improved in recent years but they remain among the world's most dangerous with 1,384 deaths in 2012, a significant decrease from the 1,973 fatalities in 2011. The Chinese government reported 2,433 fatalities in 2010 and 2,631 in 2009.<br /></p><br /><p>China in recent years shut down scores of small mines to improve safety and efficiency in the mining industry. The country has also ordered all mines to build emergency shelter systems by June 2013 which are to be equipped with machines to produce oxygen and air conditioning, protective walls and airtight doors to protect workers against toxic gases and other hazardous factors.<br /></p><br /><p>The first manned test of such a permanent underground chamber was carried out in August 2011 when around 100 people - including managers, engineers, miners, medical staff, and the chamber's developers - took part in a 48-hour test at a mine owned by the China National Coal Group in the city of Shuozhou in northern China's Shanxi Province.<br /></p><br /><p>One of the worst mining accidents in China in recent years happened in November 2009 when 104 workers were killed after several explosions at a coal mine in Heilongjiang province.<br /></p> <p>

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[Publicus]

The Boyz in Beijing talk a poor game and perform poorly to boot. All data presented by Beijing in everything is definitely suspect, as the two links below point out.

In the first link, a mining safety expert from the University of Sheffield says Beijing continues to underreport the number of coal mining deaths by some 50% annually, and that a Beijing reported reduction in coal mining deaths year on year of 30% is simply incredulous; Poor equipment, awful ventelation and operators uninitiated in mining safety also are to blame, says Prof Tim Wright.

http://www.scanimetrics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&news_item_id=82

The link below shows that all data released by Beijing are, in the frank words of one CCP official in the government, "man-made," i.e., concoctions that suit the government both domestically and abroad. Only the foolheardy accept Beijing's data in matters economic, social, political - in reality, in everything and always.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/the-collapse-of-chinas-credibility-284225.html

[jamhar]

I thought China was going to be able to leap frog over the whole industrial revolutionary phase of its countries development. and go right to hi-tech manufacturing phase. But i don't think they are going to be able to leap frog past the smog, water pollution, and now the mining fatalities phases.

I wonder if they are going to be able to leap past the trade union phase of the industrial revolution?