Legal basis: Article 134th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Whoever violates the relevant provisions on the safety management of production and operation, thus causing heavy casualties or other serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are especially bad, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years. Whoever forces others to take risks in violation of regulations, thus causing heavy casualties or other serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are particularly bad, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years.
Article 3 of the Regulations on the Reporting, Investigation and Handling of Production Safety Accidents
According to the casualties or direct economic losses caused by production safety accidents (hereinafter referred to as accidents), accidents are generally divided into the following grades:
(1) A particularly serious accident refers to an accident that killed more than 30 people at a time, or seriously injured more than 1 000 people (including acute industrial poisoning, the same below), or caused direct economic losses of more than1100 million yuan;
(2) A major accident refers to an accident that causes more than 30 people to die 10, or more than 50 people to be seriously injured 100, or more than 50 million yuan1000, resulting in direct economic losses; (3) A major accident refers to an accident that causes more than 3 people to die 10, or more than 10 and less than 50 people to be seriously injured, or more than 10 and less than 50 million yuan in direct economic losses;
(4) General accidents refer to accidents that cause less than 3 deaths, or serious injuries 10, or direct economic losses 10 million yuan.
The safety production supervision and management department of the State Council may, jointly with relevant departments of the State Council, formulate supplementary provisions on accident classification. The term "above" in the first paragraph of this article includes this number, and the term "below" does not include this number.