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Safety Agency * China - Criticizes "grim" chemical transport conditions
Beijing,China- Xinhua -15 Feb 2008: -- The State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) criticized "grim" chemical transportation safety conditions on Friday and asked local authorities to draw lessons from a series of sulfuric acid accidents in Yunnan..... SAWS, in a notice on its website, said that the safety situation in chemical transportation remained grim, and it blamed the management of cargo carriers, who frequently allowed overloading and fatigued drivers... Three sulfuric acid spills occurred within 15 days in the southwestern province of Yunnan, two involving the same company in less than a day... Preliminary investigations by SAWS indicated that the tanker had been seriously overloaded and the driver was tired after long hours on slippery roads...
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