After the most serious mining disaster in 17 years occurred at a coal mine in Qinyuan, Shanxi, leading cadres from many regions in China went to the front lines of underground production to supervise and inspect work safety.
Zhao Qingqiang, Secretary of the Shuicheng District Committee of Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province, went to supervise coal mine safety production at Panzhihua Coal Mine and Fa'er Coal Industry on Saturday (May 23).
According to a report by Shuicheng District Integrated Media Center on WeChat official account, Zhao Qingqiang changed into work clothes, put on safety equipment, and rode the overhead man-riding device to go deep into the 10701 comprehensive mining face at Panzhihua Coal Mine, where he learned firsthand about the safety production work and excavation handover at the mining face. He reminded enterprises that they must always keep work safety as a top priority, integrate all safety production procedures throughout all production operations and links, strengthen on-site underground management, mechanical equipment maintenance, and frontline worker training, and firmly ensure that there is no production if safety cannot be guaranteed.
According to The Paper, in Huanggang, Hubei, Liu Ting, Deputy Secretary and County Head of Huangmei County, led a team into the underground work site of Huangmei Longyuan Company to carry out a special supervision and inspection of work safety on Sunday morning (24th).
According to The Paper, in Huanggang, Hubei, Liu Ting, Deputy Secretary and County Head of Huangmei County, led a team into the underground work site of Huangmei Longyuan Company to carry out a special supervision and inspection of work safety on Sunday morning (24th).
According to the company, the inspection team went to the front line underground, insisted on full coverage and zero-blind-spot inspections, focusing on detailed checks in six key areas: underground roof management, ventilation system, water prevention and control, monitoring and surveillance, emergency broadcasting, and communication linkage, as well as on each critical link such as inclined shaft hoisting, blasting management, trackless vehicle transportation, and dynamic working of roof scaling.
In Hegang, Heilongjiang, Han Yang, Standing Committee Member and Deputy District Head of Xing'an District of Hegang City, also went to key coal mines in the area on Sunday for on-site inspection of potential safety hazards, urging coal mine enterprises to implement their main responsibilities for safety production and to build a solid line of defense for coal mine safety.
Chai Zhe, Secretary of the Zezhou County Party Committee in Jincheng City, Shanxi, carried out his underground safety supervision at Kunda Coal Industry on Saturday night, using the “four nos and two directs” method (no notification, no greeting, no report, no reception, going straight to the grassroots and directly to the scene).
In Hegang, Heilongjiang, Han Yang, Standing Committee Member and Deputy District Head of Xing'an District of Hegang City, also went to key coal mines in the area on Sunday for on-site inspection of potential safety hazards, urging coal mine enterprises to implement their main responsibilities for safety production and to build a solid line of defense for coal mine safety.
Chai Zhe, Secretary of the Zezhou County Party Committee in Jincheng City, Shanxi, carried out his underground safety supervision at Kunda Coal Industry on Saturday night, using the “four nos and two directs” method (no notification, no greeting, no report, no reception, going straight to the grassroots and directly to the scene).
On Friday night (22nd), a gas explosion occurred at Liushenyu Coal Mine of Tongzhou Group in Shanxi, a major coal-producing province, resulting in at least 82 deaths, making it the most serious mining disaster in China in 17 years. The on-site rescue operation is ongoing, but is fraught with difficulties such as surface collapse, inconsistencies between mine blueprints and reality, and missing location cards.
According to a report by CNR, a surviving miner said in an interview on Sunday that he noticed nothing unusual at the time of the explosion, and only received notice to start evacuating at 10 p.m. that night. The portable self-rescue oxygen device he carried ran out of oxygen in just seven or eight minutes. According to China’s "Coal Mine Safety Regulations," the isolation-type self-rescuer protection time for underground personnel should not be less than 30 minutes.
According to Dafeng News, Fu Zhen (a pseudonym), a miner who successfully escaped from Shaft No. 3 where the incident occurred, said that he is nearly 60 years old, most miners going underground are in their forties or fifties, and some co-workers had previously quit because they felt it was too dangerous.
Fu Zhen said that his workface was about 5,000 meters from the mine entrance. "The track car could only go as far as 2,600 meters, and we had to walk over 2,000 meters further to reach our workface." At the time of the incident, they were at the farthest workface of Shaft No. 3. "Maybe it was because we were farther away that we were able to escape with our lives. Right after the accident, carbon monoxide concentration probably was very high, but in our workface, it was low. When we passed through the accident area, the carbon monoxide concentration should have been diluted."
“Our team of miners was very lucky. The workface was considered a distant one, so everyone made it out. I escaped at about 11 p.m. that night—a distance of 5 kilometers took us over four hours.” Fu Zhen also said they fainted multiple times during the escape: “Later I fainted, and when I woke up I kept crawling outward, crawling a few meters at a time.” “We only had one self-rescuer, and the self-rescuer has not been replaced in four or five years.”