Drop in coal mine deaths

By Chen Qian  |   2008-7-8  |     ONLINE EDITION

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CHINA'S coal mine death rate fell to 1.05 deaths per million tons for the first half of this year, the State Administration of Work Safety announced today.

The rate was 1.485 deaths per million tons last year and 3.08 deaths in 2005, Xinhuanet.com reported.

Wang Jun, the director of the administration, announced the figures at a national coal mine work safety meeting.

According to Wang, the management of gas is the key to work safety. Now monitoring systems have been installed in all high-gas coal mines and in 92.5 percent of low-gas mines.

In the first half of this year, 294 people died in 81 coal mine accidents, a drop of 48.3 in the number of deaths and 43 percent in the number of accidents.

There were 236 coal mine accidents in the first 11 months of last year causing 898 deaths.

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