CWLee wrote:


wrote:

did you know 45,000 died last year in mining accidents?

Citation please.

Actually, it was over twice that and that was a reduction...


China’s State Administration of Work Safety said the coal mining
death toll fell 15% last year, dipping below 100,000 fatalities for
the first time in 14 years.

The official death toll for 2008 was 91,172 fatalities while the
number of accidents dropped more than 10% to 506,000.

http://paguntaka.org/2009/01/30/mining-exploration-accident-in-china-2008-review-china%E2%80%99s-coal-mining-death-decline/

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