China Mine Explosions Continue
November 15, 2006
November 15, 2006 – More than 100 miners have been killed in four separate accidents across China over the past 8 days, pushing the total number of Chinese mine workers killed this year to 3,726.
China’s coal mining industry is among the deadliest in the world, due in large part to a lack of basic worker safety standards and unreasonable production standards placed on workers.
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