Six killed, seven injured in Guizhou blast furnace accident
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-04-05 11:15

Six people were killed and seven injured in an accident on Monday afternoon at a steel and iron company in southwest China's Guizhou province, according to an official with the provincial production safety supervision administration.

The official, slag fell onto workers during an overhaul of the No.2 blast furnace at the Shuicheng Steel and Iron Corp. of Liupanshui at about 1:30, killing six people, severely injuring three, slightly hurt four and left three missing.

A company employee told Xinhua that the overhaul project, though undertaken by the No.14 Metallurgical Construction Corp. of the China National Nonferrous Metals Industry Corporation, was done by local peasant workers.

An emergency group, established by the No.14 Metallurgical Construction Corp., is going on with the rescue work. Liupanshui officials are at the accident scene, where rescue work continued Monday evening.

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