China's Cabinet Sets Up Investigation Team for Fatal Colliery Flooding Accident
Posted on: Friday, 12 August 2005, 09:00 CDT
China's cabinet sets up investigation team for fatal colliery flooding accident
XINGNING, Guangdong, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- China's coal mine production watchdogs were assigned Thursday to investigate the fatal colliery flooding accident in southern Guangdong Province.
A special investigation team for the accident, which trapped at least 123 miners at the Daxing Coal Mine in Ningxing city Sunday, was established Thursday by the State Council, or the Chinese cabinet.
Li Yizhong, director of the National Bureau of Production Safety Supervision and Administration, and Zhao Tiechui, director of the State Coal Mine Safety Supervision Administration, were appointed as heads of the team's leading group and investigation group respectively. The team will investigate the cause of the accident and will determine if there was dereliction of duty in organizing production and supervising the mine's operation, said Li Yizhong at a meeting on Thursday afternoon in Ningxing.
Huang Huahua, governor of Guangdong said at the meeting that the province would take lessons from the tragedy and take measures to improve safety management in coal mines to avoid similar accidents.
Rescue work at the private-run Daxing Coal mine in Ningxing City, is underway. The water level in the tunnels has been dropping faster as two more high-power water pumps have been put into use, according to the rescue headquarters at the site.
Except for one miner's body, recovered on Wednesday morning, rescuers had not found the rest of the missing miners as of 11 p.m. Thursday.
The accident occurred at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday in the Daxing Coal Mine of Ningxing City, Guangdong. 123 miners were reported missing. Only four escaped. Violation of safety production rules has been blamed as the main cause of the accident. 11 people, including the owner, manager, board chairman and chief technician of the Daxing Coal Mine, were caught attempting to flee after the accident.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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