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Post by dazbt on Aug 17, 2007 16:37:47 GMT -5
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Post by John on Aug 18, 2007 21:48:52 GMT -5
I was just going to add that a second colliery nearby was also flooded Daz, but you'd already amended your post.
Makes me glad I worked in relatively safe pits where the law was so strict.
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Post by Ragger on Aug 21, 2007 8:43:39 GMT -5
Reuters Report.
More than 2,000 people have been killed in China's coal mines in the first seven months of this year alone, despite repeated government campaigns to clean up the industry that has long been the world's deadliest.
China's death rate from mining accidents was 70 times that of the United States in 2005 and seven times worse than Russia and India, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Post by dazbt on Aug 24, 2007 6:14:10 GMT -5
Another 8 Chinese coal miners are trapped underground after an inundation of flood water, Friday 24th ; africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnPEK276268.htmlCandall Canyon; 6 trapped, 3 dead Huayuan; 172 trapped Minggong;; 9 trapped Panzhihua; 8 trapped Just a personal thought;
Definitions of perspective:
noun: the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
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Post by dazbt on Aug 25, 2007 3:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by John on Aug 25, 2007 7:10:13 GMT -5
Are they after beating their own records in China??? It's getting disgusting!
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Post by dazbt on Aug 25, 2007 13:57:44 GMT -5
Are they after beating their own records in China??? It's getting disgusting! Are they after beating their own records in China??? It's getting disgusting! That might have been a consideration, but only if anyone had kept records, which they haven't, for all sorts of reasons. What are floating about are several different tallies and accounts of coal mining accidents and related deaths, both official and unofficial with numerous variations within those two categories. At best from official figures released by 'Government Officials' up to 13 miners are killed in underground accidents every day (mainly coal miners but occasionally miners in other type of mines), at worst the figures are 17 deaths per day. (it may be that this difference is as a result of the working week being taken as 5 days and 6 days respectively). But even these official figures are often declared to be inaccurate in so much as the Authorities both local and nationally are aware that not all fatal incidents are reported and in many cases the numbers of deaths declared by mine officials are vastly reduced from the actual totals. There have been many instances where coal mine disasters have been totally hidden from even the local population let alone the Authorities and world wide news media, coal mines deliberately sealed and abandoned the management and owners disappearing completely, where relatives of miners killed are bought off, journalists bribed or even murdered in attempts to restrict the facts being published, and these sort of revelations are more than likely only a few of those that have been exposed, presumably by journalists or mining colleagues who hadn't succumbed to the bribery of evil owners or management. There are also various ‘unofficial’ lists of accident figures put together by various Labour organizations some based on unpublished facts and others on reasonably based estimates, some of these actually triple the official figures for mining deaths, my personal thoughts would be to assume that somewhere between the two lies the real number, so if by official accounting there are between 17 and 13 deaths per day and if in assuming that the likely figures are 1.5 times greater than the officially declared number that would mean that more than 22 Chinese miners are killed each and every working day (I think). I have been prompted to write this as a result of reading this newspaper article, which relates to the survival of two coal mining brothers having been given up for dead but against all odds rescuing themselves, had they been left buried or sealed in alive then this story would in all probability never have reached Official Government figures let alone the ears of the Western World’s Media, news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/26/content_6604790.htm'Blind Shaft' is a film based on a small coal mining operation in or around Datong in Shanxi Province, a fictional story using actual footage made in and around a local coal mine, it is based on two murderous miners who attempt the ultimate blackmail scam, the success or failure of which depends entirely upon the coal mine owner being prepared to pay a vast amount of money to cover up a fatality underground caused by his inadequate safety control and peasant miner’s acceptance of continuing to work in what must be the world’s most dangerous and oppressive working situation. The film has been banned in China, no doubt because it accurately describes the situation in many coal mining areas of China which is so obviously beyond the control and perhaps caring of a Government who sees the need for coal production being at any cost. I have a cheapo CD version of the movie bought on EBay and if nothing else I can confirm that the location and underground scenes are accurate and that I would suspect that the story line isn’t a million miles from what could or may well be reality. www.kfccinema.com/reviews/drama/blindshaft/blindshaft.htmlDaz, almost in anger, at the Chinese situation. (not you John  |
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Post by Ragger on Aug 25, 2007 14:43:06 GMT -5
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