Work Safety

The whole year saw 127,000 people killed in worksite accidents, down by 7.1 percent over the previous year. The number of deaths per 100 million yuan of GDP was 0.7, down 18.5 percent; the number of deaths per 100,000 workers engaged in second and tertiary industry was 3.85, down 6.8 percent; and the number of deaths per 1 million tons of coal mined was 2.81, down 8.7 percent over the previous year. The year saw 450,254 road accidents that resulted in 99,000 deaths, 470,000 people with injuries and direct economic losses of 1.88 billion yuan. The number of deaths per 10,000 cars of road traffic was 7.6, down 23.7 percent over the previous year.