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Saturday, January 7
BBC backgrounder on U.S. mine safety -- with a detour to China
by
Bill Doskoch
on Sat 07 Jan 2006 03:10 AM EST
This BBC backgrounder talks about the safety of the U.S. coal industry, but the eyeopening figure in it is the number of Chinese mineworker deaths per year -- 8,000 -- versus 30 in the U.S. Here's the backgrounder in the context of the Sago disaster, and here are two on the China situation: China acts on mine safety lapses (Dec. 23/05) Life cheap in China's mines (Nov. 28/04) |
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