China Coal Energy [part of China National Coal Group]...refused any compensation [to employee Shao Hongzhen] on the grounds that her death was not work-related...Sun Shengqiang [husband of Shao, said] "It was normal...to work for one or two months” with no rest days...Hongzhen was working an extra shift on 27 September and did not return to the workers’ dormitory until after midnight. At six o’clock the next morning, her co-workers discovered her unconscious on the ground...Hongzhen died early in morning of 29 September...Sun said he thought his wife’s heart disease might have been caused by her high-pressure job and long working hours...Sun asked the company to apply to the city’s Quanshan District Labour Bureau for a determination of occupational illness... The determination…was that Hongzhen’s death was not work-related because it occurred more than 48 hours after the initial work site incident, this despite the fact that she was declared brain dead within the 48 hour statutory limit.