On the 29th , the State Administration of Work Safety issued a briefing on the “ 8 · 16 ” major fire accident at the Xigou Limestone Mine of Wangxing Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., Jiuquan Group, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province .

August 16, 9 for maintenance operations at the bottom of the crushing chamber ramp, because the upper part of the ramp unit construction outer roof fall process gas welding operations, resulting in filling springboard bamboo, straw and wood composite material produced fire smoke, resulting in 9 Human poisoning died of suffocation, and enterprises blindly rescued them, causing three rescue workers to die and 16 injured.

The report said that the accident revealed that the company's hot work safety management is not strict. The well-entry personnel did not carry a self-rescuer according to the regulations. They did not report in a timely manner after the accident, they did not respond to the emergency on-site and were blindly rescued. Mine ventilation management and outsourcing construction teams The management of chaos and other outstanding issues, the lessons are extremely painful.

The State Administration of Work Safety requires that the management of hot work operations be comprehensively enhanced to effectively reduce downhole combustibles and be equipped with portable gas detection alarms and self-rescuers. Up to now, underground mines that have not yet met the mandatory standards for safe production and have portable gas detection alarms and self-rescuer devices with safety signs for mining products have all been suspended from production and repairs, and production will be resumed as required.

At the same time, it is necessary to enhance emergency response capabilities, strengthen the safety management of outsourcing construction teams, seriously investigate and handle accidents, and draw lessons learned from accidents.

This article comes to the State Administration of Work Safety and is reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.