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China Reports Less Non-Coal Mining Accidents, Death Toll

Posted on: Sunday, 25 September 2005, 09:00 CDT

China reports less non-coal mining accidents, death toll

XI'AN, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- There were 1,035 fatal accidents at non-coal mining entities across China in the first seven months of the year, with 1,238 deaths.

Both statistics went down by 23.8 percent and 20.5 percent as compared with comparable figures for 2004, said Sun Huashan, deputy head of the General Administration of Work Safety (GAWS), at an on- going national meeting on work safety control concerning non-coal mining industry and its relevant sectors held in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

But he warned that there was a drastic rise in the number of fatal accidents and death toll with the petroleum sector during the same period of time.

There were 23 accidents with the petroleum sector with 28 deaths from January to July, an increase of 130 percent and 115.4 percent from the same period last year, respectively.

By late August this year, China now has 101,000 non-mining entities, some 75 percent of which are small quarries and clay pits with bricks and tiles.

Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS

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