Safety Subverted In China's Mines
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LINFEN, China -- Mining has resumed in the frigid shafts, and long lines of 18-wheelers laden with coal once again clog the twisty mountain roads leading out of Linfen. This grime-covered city, where the packed snow long ago turned black and carbon-colored dust hangs in the air, has reclaimed its...
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A gas explosion in a coal mine in  China's northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning killed at  least 203 workers in the worst disaster in 15 years to hit the  world's most dangerous mining industry.
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XINMI, China -- Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards yesterday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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Two brothers have crawled to safety  after being trapped for nearly six days in a Chinese coal mine,  state media said on Monday.
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There are reports at least two dozen coal miners are dead and more than 140 are still trapped in a mine in central China. Nearly 300 workers were in the mine when a massive gas explosion tore through the shaft.
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Low temperatures complicate efforts to reach trapped miners after a blast kills at least 203 in China.
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A government safety crackdown helped cut the number of deaths in China&#39;s accident-plagued coal mines by 13 per cent in the first nine months of this year, but fatalities in other industries rose, the government said Thursday.
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THE death toll in a coal mine explosion in central China has risen to 63, with 103 miners still missing. The Government said yesterday an underground fire and toxic fumes from the blast hampered rescue work.
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BEIJING  - Rescue teams resigned themselves to pulling only corpses from a mine where 103 workers remained trapped after a gas blast, as Chinese media demanded investment to mechanize the industry and improve safety.
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A gas explosion in a crowded coal mine  in China killed at least 56 people and left 92 missing with  little hope of surviving the country's most serious mine  accident in years, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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Investigators have determined that  back-to-back coal-dust and gas blasts ripped through a mine in  northern China killing at least 50 workers and leaving more  than 110 trapped and feared dead, said reports on Tuesday.
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A GAS explosion in a coal mine killed at least 56 miners and left at least 92 missing in Chinaâs worst mining accident this year.
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Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 49 Chinese miners killed when fire swept through an iron mine complex in the northern province of Hebei, the State Administration of Work Safety said on Monday.
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At least thirty-three miners have been killed in a fire broke out on Saturday morning at five iron mines in Shahe, North China&#39;s Hebei Province.
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China's deadly coal mines took nearly 3,800 lives in 2007, more than 20 percent fewer fatalities than the year before, the government and state press reported Sunday.
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BEIJING Eight miners have been killed in a fire that broke out in a complex of iron mines in northern China. State media says Chinese rescuers are struggling to find 79 more miners still trapped.
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Beijing - The number of fatalities in an underground fire in an iron ore mine rose to 48, officials with the government&#39;s worker protection administration said.