From Reuters:
A Chinese court jailed two managers of a state-owned coal mine on Wednesday for negligence two years after a gas explosion killed 166 miners, Xinhua news agency said.
The blast, one of the worst in China in decades, hit the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan in the northwestern province of Shaanxi just days after the pit had caught fire.
Mine manager Liu Shuangming was jailed for 5- years and his deputy and chief engineer, Wang Youjun, was jailed for five years, Xinhua said. [Full Text]
Related article from BBC:”The high price paid by China’s miners” says, “Nearly 6,000 died last year alone in more than 3,000 fires, floods, explosions and other accidents. All that has landed officials in Beijing with one record they would rather not have – China has the most deadly mining industry in the world. ”
