Nocere – Earth Disasters

In China on Tuesday morning, while workers were in the coal mine doing their job, an unexpected gas blast raged through the mine shafts taking the lives of roughly 11 workers.

The mine is located in the north area of Chinese Shanxi in the town of Jinzhong and it owned by the Xingguang Company.

There have been two workers saved, but another three are still not located. They are continuing rescue operations searching for the missing.

Last  year, about 3,200 workers perished in mine accidents. This makes working in mines the most dangerous job on the earth.

China is working at improving the conditions of the mines and setting better safety criteria for them to help insure the safety of the workers. Due to assorted reasons, possibly not being safe and other hazzards, some of the less in size mines have shut down in the last months.

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