Seven employees of China’s second-largest oil company have been detained in connection with a crude oil explosion that killed at least 55 people in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao.
The official microblog of the Qingdao Economic and Technology Development zone said seven Sinopec staff and two local government officials had been detained in connection with the explosion on November 22. The accident is the deadliest this year in China, where pressure is building for greater scrutiny of workplace safety.
Central government has blamed the blast on human error. “Very serious dereliction of duty” was behind the accident, a senior official in charge of China’s work safety administration said on Monday, according to state news agency Xinhua.
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