Two deaths and six injuries caused by poisonous gas leakage in a nickel-iron mine in Qinghai

In the early morning of June 7, a nickel-iron ore accident occurred in Pingan County, Haidong City, Qinghai Province, resulting in two deaths and six injuries. It was initially determined that the incident was an acute hydrogen sulfide poisoning accident.

According to the official news from Pingan County, the accident occurred to Qinghai Xinhai Resources Development Co., Ltd., and its gas leakage accident occurred at about 1am at the leaching workshop of the Yuanshishan nickel-iron mine. Eight persons were poisoned in the accident, including two deaths. One with severe poisoning symptoms was sent to the People's Hospital of Qinghai Province for treatment. The remaining five people were treated at Haidong Hospital. The current vital signs are stable.

It is understood that at 1 o'clock in the morning, Qinghai Xinhai Resources Development Co., Ltd. Yuanshishan nickel iron ore mine leaching workshop two on-job staff lost contact, then, six workers went to see the situation, there have been poisoning.

“We went in to save people. In less than a minute, everyone felt extremely uncomfortable. I was reporting the news of crawling out.” He Yuerong, the person who witnessed the accident, said.

Xu Changliang was one of the victims of the accident. At about 7:00 that day, he was transferred from Haidong People’s Hospital to Qinghai Provincial People’s Hospital for treatment. At 10 a.m., Xu Changliang was taken to the hospital for hyperbaric oxygen treatment. “I got a phone call from someone in the village who was at work at the mine at 3 am and said that Xu Changliang was poisoned. He was very serious and asked the family to hurry to Haidong Hospital.” Xu Changliang’s uncle Xu Deqing told the reporter on the China New Network. “ At the time of the visit to the hospital, people had been unconscious and sent to the provincial hospital in the morning.

"It's only 22 years old and I can't really do anything!" Xu Changshou's father Xu Deshou has been muttering to the side.

After the accident, it caused the relevant departments and leaders of the province to attach importance to it. The main leaders of the Haidong municipal Party committee and municipal government and the main leaders of the Ping'an County Party Committee and the county government divided into two routes and rushed to the scene to dispose of the incident and visited the injured. An emergency meeting was convened in Ping An County to initiate an emergency plan. The county government headed by Wang Yuanlai was appointed as the head of the county government. The county government’s deputy head of the county was Liu Gui’e, the county’s propaganda minister Shen Yanzhao, and the county’s deputy governor Yang Fasheng was the deputy leader. The relevant department’s principal The members of the Yuanshishan Nickel-iron Mine Leading Group for the Handling of Incidents of Safety Accidents have put forward strict accountability for the accidents according to the principle of “Flaw for Truth from Facts,” and ordered the enterprises to suspend production for rectification and comprehensively investigate potential safety hazards.

Xiao Bian Tips: Inter-plant, tanker, underground and other limited space operations must be equipped with protective equipment to prevent poisoning incidents.

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