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systemic safety failures
Coverage of systemic safety failures in the Nexus archive.
- Shanxi mine disaster casts shadow over province’s shift from coal to culture
Shanxi, China’s top coal-producing province, faced a deadly gas explosion at the Liushenyu Coal Mine, killing at least 82 people. The disaster, attributed to systemic safety failures, undermines the province’s efforts to rebrand from a coal-centric, high-risk mining hub to a cultural and tourist destination.
- Are systemic safety failures to blame for China’s deadly mine blast?
A gas explosion at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Shanxi province, China, killed at least 82 people and left 128 injured, marking the country’s deadliest mining disaster in over a decade. Miners and industry insiders attributed the incident to systemic safety failures across the production chain.