Work-Related Deaths in China

ProMed | 12/27/03 | vanity

[genefromjersey]

Glancing at the ProMed site this morning,I noticed a report about the gas well explosion in China, which had,at time of publication,snuffed out at least 191 lives.

I came across this rather amazing statistic about industrial accidents in China, which I have taken the liberty of quoting in full.

"An average of more than 10,000 people a month died in work-related accidents from January to September of 2003."

Still want to "buy Chinese" ???

[genefromjersey]

ProMed is an online resource,published daily by the world's medical professionals,and is about as non-political as anyone can get in this world.

[rellimpank]

----inadvertent population control, if true---

[templar]

Still want to "buy Chinese" ???

(Not addressed to anyone specifically but:) Still think American workplace saftey laws are unjustified? We can't compete with a people who have no respect for the well being, even the lives, of their workers.

Why are Americans so willing to toss away the freedom and standard of living that so many generations have worked so hard to produce for US in exchange for nothing but cheap consumer goods? I don't understand it.

[RussianConservative]

Post this to all left sites, gives ammunition to boycott corporation from China trade, which in advertant save jobs of average peoples.

[RussianConservative]

Easy: corruption of moral being into pure materialism and consumerism even at long term expense of own life.

[stylin_geek]

And work conditions in the U.S. during the 19th century until just after the beginning of the 20th century were humane? Samuel Gompers might beg to differ.

[AngrySpud]

You never know what the definition of "work-related" means. For example, are military training deaths "work related"? My guess is yes.

[MediaMole]

US population 2000 281,421,906
US Workplace deaths 2002 5,524

Chinese Population 2000 1,261,832,482
Chinese Workplace deaths 120000 (est)

If the US levels held in China, there would be around 24,827 workplace deaths in China.

If the Chinese levels held in the US, there would be around 27,000 workplace deaths in the US.

[monkeywrench]

Let's send them lawyers, a whole lotta lawyers!!

[BureaucratusMaximus]

"An average of more than 10,000 people a month died in work-related accidents from January to September of 2003."

Which, when looking at this from a macro perspective, is not that bad. 10,000 people per month=120,000 per year, which is 120,000/1 billion = or .012% of the population. Not bad. /sarcasm

[LouisianaLobster]

Worst of all, this lack of regulations allows them to outperform our economic growth. I think those guys need trade unions.

[cp124]

Stop the crying. I want my $18 CD player.

[raybbr]

ping

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"An average of more than 10,000 people a month died in work-related accidents from January to September of 2003."

"It's for the consumers." Hillary Free Trader.

[dirtydanusa]

A friend of mine who's company opened up shop in China said a worker died on the job in Aug. His company settled out of court with the family for $400, which is equal to 2 years pay for his family.