"Two separate coal mine accidents kill 12 in China" 12 March 2023

Two separate coal mine accidents have killed 12 people in China over the last 24 hours, state broadcaster CCTV reported, the latest incidents to plague the industry after the government recently revised mining safety legislation.

An underground coal bunker owned by a firm in Zhongyang County, Shanxi province collapsed right before midnight on Monday, killing five people with two missing, CCTV said on Tuesday. The bunker is owned by Taoyuan Xinlong Coal Industry Co Ltd...

Separately, seven people were also found dead and two missing after a gas explosion at Huaihe Energy's coal mine in China's eastern Anhui province, CCTV reported late Monday evening...

While the Chinese government doesn’t regularly report coal mining deaths, the National Bureau of Statistics said last month that the rate of fatalities rose 24% last year to 0.094 deaths per million tons of output. That equates to about 438 deaths, which would be the most since 2016...

In 2023, China had a string of deadly coal mine accidents, forcing the country's mine safety administration to revamp an existing law that an official said had "prominent problems"...