Fatal lab explosion in China highlights wider safety fears

There have been plenty of harmful and lethal accidents in US labs over the years as well. In neither country are these accidents common - they still make news when they occur, so with >4x the population could mean we think that they're occurring "all the time" simply because (say) we could be hearing about an accident in china multiple times a year, for years before we hear about an accident in the US say, and so on for other countries.

It reminds me of people losing their minds over suicide rates in Chinese factories, because they looked at them in absolute terms and didn't comprehend the size of the factories. The factories with "insane" suicide rates had lower average suicide rates than the US, or even the china average.