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    One death and nine injuries were caused by an open fire extinguished in the chemical explosion in Yantai Runxing, Shandong Province.

    • Last Update: 2020-09-24
    • Source: Internet
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    face a broken glass, Li surnamed old man is still in a state of shock. At noon on the 23rd, he told the First Financial Daily that the village will send someone in the afternoon to survey the damage statistics, it is not convenient to clean the broken glass of the house. Li's family lives in The village of Dongfa, in the town of Gori in Zibo City, Shandong Province, about 400 meters from the blast site of Shandong Runxing Technology and Chemical Co., Ltd. ("Runxing Chemical"). A shutter door opposite Li's home changed shape under the impact of the explosion, which showed the power of the explosion. The scene did not detect characteristic pollutants this reporter rushed to Runxing Chemical on the 23rd, here in addition to blocking roads, nearby villagers' shattered glass, access to the factory area of the thick fire water pipe, basically do not see signs of explosion. On the 22nd, at 20:56, a separator caught fire and exploded in Runxing Chemical. According to the official microblog of Zibo City, as of 1:50 on the 23rd, the open fire had been put out. Yantai County Government Information Office said that the accident caused a total of 1 death and 9 injuries, of which the deceased was found in the clean-up of the scene, factory workers. The other injured persons have been sent to Zibo City or Yantai County Hospital for treatment. At present, the specific cause of the accident is still under investigation. But for the local villagers, the bombing still made them worry. A kilometer away from the scene of the explosion, local police blocked the road, on the grounds that the scene is still rescue, not convenient for social vehicles to enter, but the police are friendly to reporters. After the accident, the environmental protection departments at the zibo city and Yantai county levels dispatched a number of environmental inspection vehicles to monitor the environment around the accident site, and no characteristic pollutants were detected, the press office of the Yantai County government said. Around the factory, the reporter met the Shandong Provincial Environmental Protection Department air quality monitoring staff. They said that the early morning of the 23rd arrived around Runxing Chemical to carry out air quality monitoring. It was nearly 12 noon and EPA staff were preparing to evacuate. "It should be safe not to detect characteristic contaminants before." But local villagers are worried that several are wearing masks. As soon as the inspection team left, this side blew up Runxing Chemical Co., Ltd. Shandong Runxing Investment Group Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of a private joint-stock enterprise. Founded in 2012, the company completed construction in July and began trial production in August. According to the news from Runxing Chemical's official website, the company is a high-tech fine chemical enterprises that combine scientific research, production and sales. Its independent research and development of acetylene (ADN) products have been a number of national patents, to fill the gaps in the country, to reach the national advanced level. Hetamine is a colorless oil-like liquid, slightly odor, is the middle of the manufacture of nylon, in the event of open fire, high thermal combustible, and strong oxidants can react, by heat to liberate the toxic nitrogen oxide flue gas. In mid-May this year, Runxing Chemical 100,000 tons of the overall project in the delivery ceremony held as scheduled, marking The strategic emerging industries in Shandong Province, Key Construction Projects in Shandong Province, Zibo City, the construction period of major construction projects basically ended, fully into the system commissioning, production preparation, test driving key stage, to the production target took a solid step. Local villagers told this reporter that the chemical plant has not yet been officially put into operation, should still be in the trial production stage. According to the official website of Shandong Environmental Protection Department, Runxing Chemical was interviewed by the provincial environmental protection department this year for implementing the village environmental protection relocation work. After the Tianjin port explosion, safety production inspections were carried out throughout the country, and Zibo was no exception. The day after the Tianjin explosion, on August 13, Yantai County held a symposium on the safety of production of the main persons in charge of dangerous chemical enterprises. Zibo City to all hazardous chemicals production, storage, use, operating enterprises and hazardous chemicals operating market to carry out a safety inspection, proposed to "zero leakage, zero fire, zero explosion, zero death" as the goal, a comprehensive and complete elimination of safety hazards and weak links, effectively prevent and resolutely curb the occurrence of all kinds of production safety accidents. On August 15th, zibo City Safety Production Committee issued a red-headed document on "Comprehensively carrying out safety production inspection and deepening the work programme of "fighting non-treatment violations" and special rectification." August 17-21, Shandong Province Land and Resources Department and a team of 6 people, to Zibo City to supervise the work of safe production. Enterprises have also been educated about safe production. As recently as May this year, Runxing Chemical also invited relevant personnel to train employees, from the safety accident cause analysis, 13 accident lessons, future preventive measures, combined with the recent chemical industry serious safety accident cases, explained the chemical plant area 41 prohibitions. But none of this has stopped Runxing Chemical from exploding.
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