Safety rules have often been ignored in favour of profit ! Because it is corruption of Mr.ZHAO Tiechui's Administration.
Don't care about the workers' safety, they only care about their production ! ----Quotation from
Chinesemines are notoriously dangerous due to the widespread flouting of safety rules, typically blamed on corrupt mine operators trying to keep costs down, with coal mining particularly accident-prone. http://www.canada.com/news/Hope+fades+trapped+miners+China/3683589/story.html
On Sunday, 17th Oct 2010, Author believes Mr.ZHAO had read this blog, the Sate Administration of Work Safety has to admit Henan coal mine accident is "Man Made".
A web of intrigue designed by corrupt officials and coal mines has been debunked. Mr. ZHAO cannot dare to conclude as the result of investigation of Daping accident as the accident occurred “deep in a complicated stratum” inside the mine that provided a shield for the local officials and coal mine owners who escaped the legal punishments.
Please follows up and keeps eyes on Yuzhou accident how and who must be got legal punishments. It must not just punish officials in small roles as "Scapegoats". If not, that meant they would be successful to cover their corruptions and escape the legal punishments. The investigation should find corrupt officials who have guilty of serious dereliction of duty.
Daily Mail Reporter point out that at least 195 miners killed in mine accidents during August in Henan this year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321806/37-Chinese-miners-die-trapped-following-gas-explosion.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11557581
1. the authorities have not been as open when it comes to reporting their own mining accidents.
2. The effort to find a group of miners trapped beneath ground at a colliery in Henan Province has not received extensive coverage.
3. On Sunday morning, as rescuers presumably continued their search for the miners, the state-run news agency Xinhua had little to say beyond the bare facts.
4. China Central Television's 10am news round-up did not even mention the accident - on the central government's own website the accident was not even a headline.
Also further evidences supported the accidents as man made: 1. the authorities have not been as open when it comes to reporting their own mining accidents.
2. The effort to find a group of miners trapped beneath ground at a colliery in Henan Province has not received extensive coverage.
3. On Sunday morning, as rescuers presumably continued their search for the miners, the state-run news agency Xinhua had little to say beyond the bare facts.
4. China Central Television's 10am news round-up did not even mention the accident - on the central government's own website the accident was not even a headline.
BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11557581
1."This place is not even safe, they started operations even before it was ready," the mother of one missing miner was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
2.The brother of one of the miners killed said the pit should not have been operating as the ventilation system was not working.
3."Since you were planning to deal with the unsafe factors [at the mine], why didn't you stop the operation at other platforms first and then deal with it?," Luo Lin, head of the work safety administration, asked the owners in a press conference.
4.Many of those employed in mines are migrant workers with limited training.
China Says Henan Mine Violated Rules, Leading to Deadly Blast
October 19, 2010, 10:49 PM EDT; By Bloomberg Newshttp://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-19/china-says-henan-mine-violated-rules-leading-to-deadly-blast.html
(Bloomberg) -- China’s State Administration of Work Safety said that violation of rules led to a blast at the coal mine in Henan province that killed 37 miners, according to a statement posted to the regulator’s website yesterday.
The accident occurred as a vent was being dug to release gases as part of safety measures, the statement said. The mine didn’t take enough protective measures as required by rules and had too many workers in the pit, according to the statement.
The coal mine didn’t learn a lesson from its previous blast in 2008 which killed 23 people, the statement said. The regulator also ordered a nationwide halt of production at coal mines that can’t effectively prevent gas blasts, fires and flooding, according to the statement.
