Qingdao's May 4 Squarevia WikipediaA severe lapse in work safety has been pinpointed as the cause for Monday's deadly train crash and has triggered off a nation-wide bid to improve the safety for workers, write state-media, here quoted by AFP.
On Monday a train from Beijing to Qingdao, two Olympic cities, derailed, killing 71 people and wounding over 400. Because of the upcoming Olympics the rail track was being expanded, but safety authorities failed to warn the train to slow down. The train then derailed, crashed into the work site and hit another train coming from the opposite direction.
"The work safety situation remains serious, as some regions and enterprises are not taking responsibility and are not implementing safety measures," the People's Daily said, citing a cabinet-level report on the accident.
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Wasn't work safety high on the agenda after the rush of mining accidents a few years back ? What happened ? They found a way to mute the media on work safety ?
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