Re: yet more deaths in the poorly regulated and filthy fossil fuel industry.....20
- From: abelard <abelard3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:12:54 +0200
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:06:00 -0400, FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:33:15 +0200, in uk.politics.misc abelard
<abelard3@xxxxxxxxxxx>, wrote
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/aug/11/three-miners-die-in-fall/
"But something went wrong. The bucket, secured by a wire rope to a
hoisting mechanism on the surface, tipped - officials said it was
"upset from its true vertical hanging."
The three men fell out - plunging the equivalent of 50 stories to
their deaths - as seven of their colleagues worked below them in the
shaft."
regards
A comparison:
Production:
China: 1,393.4 million tonnes
United States: 992.3 million tonnes
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-02/07/content_5710663.htm
China's coal mine accidents increase alarmingly in January
www.chinaview.cn 2007-02-07 19:47:03
BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The number of coal mine accidents in January was up
34.5 percent on the same month last year, according to a statement released by the
State Administration of Work Safety on Wednesday.
Fatalities in coal mine accidents in the first month also soared 38.7 percent.
The administration reported 15 "serious accidents" which resulted in 96 deaths in
January.
Illegal mining and poor control of gas supplies were cited as major factors
behind the increase in colliery accidents.
From January to November 2006, China recorded 3,413 coal mine accidents, down
6.9 percent from a year earlier. The accidents claimed 5,286 lives in total, down
7.9 percent.
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(Ugh, "wiki") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_accident
American accidents
In the United States in 2006, 72 miners lost their lives at work, 47 in coal mining.
The majority of these fatalities occurred in Kentucky and West Virginia, including
the Sago Mine Disaster.[3][4]
corollary to above from same source: Chinese accidents
China currently accounts for the largest number of coal-mining fatalities,
accounting for about 80% of the world?s total although it produces only 35% of the
world?s coal.[6]
Wiki give's a 'worker's died' figure of 4,746 (2006)
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The reason for this comparison is that though it may not be perfectly regulated in
the free world, it is hardly even comparable to the chosen not-free world of china.
fully agreed of course....
you may realise i'm running a campaign against the shills of the
filthy fossil fuel industry and their fossil press running
dogs...
while
every minor glitch in the nuclear power industry is exaggerated out
of all proportion and on and on and on....
despite the nuclear industry being far far better regulated and vastly
safer....
regards
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