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inanna

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Sun Jun 4, 2017, 09:13 PM Jun 2017

Blast hits petrochemical plant in China, damage unknown: Xinhua

Source: Reuters

Sun Jun 4, 2017 | 8:53pm EDT

An explosion rocked a petrochemical plant in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong early on Monday, but the cause and extent of damage was unknown, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

The blast occurred at 1 a.m. and triggered fires at the loading area of Linyi Jinyu Petrochemical Co. Ltd. in the Linyi Lingang Economic Development Zone, it said.

Deadly accidents are relatively common at industrial plants in China, and anger over lax standards has grown after three decades of swift economic growth marred by incidents from mining disasters to factory fires.

Massive chemical explosions in the port city of Tianjin in 2015 killed more than 170 people. Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed after the Tianjin blasts that the authorities should learn the lessons paid for in blood.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-blast-idUSKBN18W02E?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

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Blast hits petrochemical plant in China, damage unknown: Xinhua (Original Post) inanna Jun 2017 OP
U.S.A. has plenty of deadly industrial explosions; U.S. industrial safety is nothing to brag about. hunter Jun 2017 #1

hunter

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1. U.S.A. has plenty of deadly industrial explosions; U.S. industrial safety is nothing to brag about.
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 10:59 AM
Jun 2017

Like this one:

*The Deadly Explosion Behind America's Whipped-Cream Shortage*

In August, a gas tanker exploded not far from a nylon factory in Cantonment, Florida. And this winter, just time in for the holiday season, the whole country is facing a sudden shortage of Reddi-wip. These two events are directly related, and their connection reveals the complicated mechanics of bringing sweet whipped dairy topping to your holiday pie.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-deadly-explosion-behind-americas-whipped-cream-shortage/511118/

Or how about the Deepwater Horizon?



If we have fewer explosions in the U.S.A. than we used to it's partly because U.S. industry has shut down domestic production in favor of cheap Chinese imports. (The same is true of air and water pollution.)

China also tends to have more people in the vicinity of accidents. Accidents that kill one or two people in the U.S.A. might kill dozens in China.

Sadly, the Republican Party is chipping away at the hard-won work safety regulations we now enjoy.

Sure, Chinese industrial safety is worse than ours, but industries everywhere cut corners hoping to increase profits.



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