Coal Mine Blast Kills 14 People in Guizhou
Posted on: Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 18:00 CDT
Fourteen miners were killed after another gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in Southwest China early yesterday morning.
The explosion happened at about 1:30 am in the Fengxiangpo Coal Mine, a village-run pit in Kaiyang County, Guizhou Province, 86 kilometres from the provincial capital Guiyang.
The State Administration of Work Safety said 14 men were working the pit at the time.
According to the provincial administration of coal mine safety, the Fengxiangpo coal mine holds a C-level production licence, which merely meets the standards of production safety.
Rescuers rushed to the mine yesterday morning.
A spokesman with the provincial coal mine safety supervision bureau said five miners were killed on the spot and the nine others died of suffocation due to a high density of carbon monoxide.
Survival rates in gas explosions are generally low due to the short time it takes for gas inhalation to kill, especially in the Guizhou and Chongqing areas where gas in coal mines is particularly dense.
In another development, the State Administration of Work Safety revealed two more bodies were recovered yesterday after a gas blast hit the Shuangzishan Coal Mine in Central China's Hunan Province on July 24. So far, three people have been confirmed dead and two are still missing.
Two mine directors were announced guilty this week for the gas blast which hit the Xinsheng Coal Mine in Central China's Henan Province on November 11, 2004, claiming the lives of 34 miners.
Both Li Wei and Shen Hairong received three-year sentences for illegally subcontracting mine operations.
Li Yizhong, director of the State Administration of Work Safety said last Thursday that in the first half of 2005, coal mine accidents claimed a total of 2,672 lives, up 3.3 per cent over the same period last year.
Source: China Daily; North American ed.
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