Safety standards blamed
NZPA-Reuter Peking Seventy workers in Chinese chemical factories were killed by fires, or poisonous gas in the first half of the year because of poor safety standards, the official “China Daily” newspaper reported. The paper said 283 other workers had been injured in the accidents and quoted a Chemical Industry Ministry
spokesman as saying that a number oi factories were to be closed due to their neglect of safety rules. Another four serious accidents were reported at chemical plants throughout China last month, the newspaper said, but only gave details of one: two workers were killed and 27 injured in an explosion at a petrochemical plant near Peking.
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Press, 12 August 1985, Page 16
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