Major disasters in recent years

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-11-17 07:38

Nov 8: Seven workers injured when a supporting plank breaks and sand bags fall on workers at a construction site of subway Line No 1 in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.

April 1: Three workers die and two are injured when frames for a cementing work break at a subway Line No 3 site in Shenzhen.

Jan 17: A 100-sq-m subsidence about 5-m deep is caused by a cave-in at an underground construction site of subway Line No 5 in Guangzhou. But no casualty is reported.

May 28, 2007: Two workers die and one is injured when a mound of mud dug out of a tunnel collapses and flows back into an underground construction site of subway Line No 1 in Nanjing.

April 20: 30 tons of cement blocks fall on a building near a construction site of subway Line No 10 in Shanghai because of a malfunctioning in a crane. But no casualty is reported.

March 28: Six workers are buried alive after a portion of a construction site of Beijing's subway Line No 10 caves in.

June 27, 2006: Two workers are buried alive at a construction site of Beijing's subway Line No 10.

Jan 3: Huge volumes of water flows out after a drinking water pipe breaks causing a cave-in at the Jingguang Bridge near Beijing's Third Ring Road at a construction site of subway Line No 10. No casualty is reported, but the accident causes chaos in the capital.

Nov 30, 2005: A truck falls into a 400-sq-m subsidence, about 10-m deep, at a construction site of Beijing's subway Line No 10. But no casualty is reported.

July 1, 2003: Land caves in at a construction site of Shanghai's subway Line No 4. Though no casualty is reported, it causes a loss of about 150 million yuan, making it the most economically damaging accident so far.