COAL FATALITY STATISTICS - 2000

摘要

Coal fatalities in 2000 were reported to have totaled 5,798,444 of which were accidents involving three or more fatalities, and 75 of which had 10 deaths or more. On a tonnage basis, death rates were: 1.901 for state-owned mines; 4.404 for state-owned provincial mines; and 17.06 for county/village-owned mines.Since methane-related deaths account for approximately 50 percent of the total deaths, the government has, since 1980, appropriated 80-M yuan/yr to study ventilation, explosion prevention, control, methane drainage, and monitoring. This was changed in 1988 when this special fund was reduced to 50 M yuan/yr, which came from a specifically designated fee, levied at 0.5-yuan/mt coal mined. The money was doubled in 1992 to 1 yuan/mt by then-Vice Primier Zhu Rongji. The money has been used to study and renovate the ventilation methane drainage systems of China's 86 most gassy mines, which has been believed to have effectively reduced methane-related mine accidents.