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31 punished for power plant accident that killed 73
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China has ordered 31 people to be placed under “coercive measures” for a collapse last year at a construction site that killed 73 people, Xinhua news agency reported.
Coercive measures are a form of detention that can range from surveillance to arrest.
The punishment follows the collapse in November 2016 of a platform being built for a cooling tower at a power plant in southern China, causing losses of US$15.6 million.
A government report says investigators concluded the accident was caused by a range of issues, including poor supervision “and the building company’s failure to fulfill its work safety responsibilities,” Xinhua said.
The names and job positions of those punished were not given, nor was the company’s name.
In a separate incident on Saturday, rescuers pulled nine workers from the rubble of a collapsed railway tunnel in the country’s southwest, two days after it collapsed around them.
Xinhua said the nine were in a stable condition in hospital.
The accident occurred in a mountainous area in Yunnan Province. Rescuers were able to make contact with the men on Friday, confirm all had survived and get food to them.
More than 200 workers were involved in the rescue, digging a string of tunnels to reach the men.
China has a long history of deadly construction accidents, sometimes caused by cutting corners in a rush to meet deadlines. But pressure has been growing for better regulations, safety training and equipment.
While 19,783 people died in industrial accidents in the first seven months of 2017, according to the State Administration of Work Safety, that was down almost 17 percent compared to the same period in 2016.
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