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Workplace accidents continue to decline

WORKPLACE accidents continued to decline in China last year, according to official figures released yesterday.

The State Administration of Work Safety reported 60,000 workplace safety accidents in 2016, a reduction of 5.8 percent from the year before.

Those accidents killed 41,000 workers, 4.1 percent fewer than in 2015, said Yang Huanning, head of the administration, at its annual meeting.

The number of severe accidents fell by 15.8 percent year on year to 32, while deaths in such accidents declined by 25.7 percent to 571. Severe accidents are defined as those resulting in at least 10 deaths.

About 200 people have been punished in relation to workplace accidents and 97 have been sent to judiciary departments for investigation, the administration said.

Despite improvements, the safety situation at small collieries remains dire, it said, with severe accidents at small pits on the rise.

Huang Yuzhi, director of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety, said 60 percent of the nation’s coal mines are small collieries with a production capacity of less than 300,000 tons a year.

Outdated equipment, lack of technicians and loose management have plagued those mines, which accounted for nearly 80 percent of severe coal mine accidents.

Illegal small coal mines had reappeared in a number of regions as local governments loosened oversight in pursuit of economic interests, Huang told the meeting.

The administration is urging local authorities to take steps to close down all illegal small pits this year.




 

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