2. Every year, the direct loss caused by industrial accidents is several billion yuan, the loss caused by occupational diseases is nearly 10 billion yuan, and the resulting economic loss is 80 billion yuan.
Thousands of families have suffered devastating disasters and incurable wounds.
3. The General Assembly of the International Labour Organization (ILO) criticizes the occupational health and safety in China every year, and the World Conference on Human Rights and other organizations also use this as an excuse to attack China for "ignoring human rights".
On February 1994 12, Newsweek published an article entitled "Death Factories in Asia", which wrote: "... nowhere in Asia is industrial safety measures more relaxed than in China. ..... The most frequent and fatal fire occurred in factories in China Southern Special Economic Zone, and the fire swallowed up many factories. Millions of workers pour into the "three in one" sweatshop every day. This is because the workshops, warehouses and dormitories of these factories are all together. Most workers are girls with little education. They were attracted from the countryside to the cities by the promise of earning $65,438 +0.5 a day (a sum of money according to rural standards). "
In 2002, at the symposium on occupational safety and health jointly held by mainland China, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Macau, the reporter asked the officials in charge of occupational health in Taiwan Province Province: "There are a large number of Taiwan-funded enterprises in the Pearl River Delta, some of which have outdated equipment, and a considerable number of workers' arms and fingers are broken by machines every year. Are all these enterprises in Taiwan Province Province the same? "The official replied:" This is mainly because the mainland is lax in management and the punishment is not heavy. In Taiwan Province Province, if this kind of accident happens, the boss has to pay extremely high compensation. If this kind of accident happens one more time, the boss will go bankrupt. "
Some foreign friendly people expressed concern and anxiety about the occupational health and safety situation in China. An ILO official once said: "China has become a political and economic power, but it should not become a country with industrial accidents."
4. Group deaths and injuries occur from time to time:
1979165438+1At 3: 30am on October 25th, the drilling ship "Bohai II" of the Offshore Oil Exploration Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum capsized while towing to a new well position in Bohai Bay. At that time, there were 74 people on board, 72 people died and the direct economic loss was 37 million yuan.
1994 12.8 A fire broke out in the performance held in Friendship Hall, Karamay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, killing 325 people, including 288 children.
On February 25th, 2000, at 65438, a fire broke out in Du Dong Commercial Building, the old town of Luoyang, Henan Province, killing 309 people.
On February 23, 2003, a serious blowout accident occurred in the northeast Sichuan gas mine 16 well in Gao Qiao Town, Kaixian County, Chongqing, and a large amount of natural gas containing highly toxic hydrogen sulfide was sprayed everywhere, resulting in 243 poisoning deaths, 2 142 hospitalization and 65,000 emergency evacuation and resettlement.
On June 28th, 2004, a major gas explosion occurred in Chenjiashan Coal Mine of Tongchuan Mining Bureau, located in Miaowan Town, Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province. Only 2 187 miners trapped underground survived, and the rest 166 were all killed.
On June 3, 2005, a traffic accident occurred in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, killing 55 people and injuring 34 others.
At about 7: 45 on April 18, 2007, a ladle sliding accident occurred in Qinghe Special Steel Co., Ltd., Tieling City, Liaoning Province. The ladle containing 30 tons of molten steel suddenly slipped and overflowed when it was lifted and lowered to 2-3 meters, and the molten steel rushed into a house 5 meters away from the workshop, causing all 32 people who were working shifts in the house to die and two operators to be slightly injured.