China News Service, March 29. According to the National Energy Administration website, the National Energy Administration announced typical law enforcement cases (23-25) on power production safety supervision.
Case 23: Administrative penalty case against an energy company by the Northeast Regulatory Bureau of the National Energy Administration
In July 2023, the Northeast Energy Regulatory Bureau received a report indicating that a wind turbine collapsed at a wind farm. It was confirmed by the Northeast Energy Regulatory Bureau that a tower collapse accident occurred at a wind farm of an energy company in June 2023. The unit involved failed to report accident-related information to the Northeast Energy Regulatory Bureau in a timely manner. After verifying the accident information, the Northeast Energy Regulatory Bureau established an accident investigation team to carry out accident investigation in accordance with the "Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Regulations on Emergency Response and Investigation of Electric Power Safety Accidents". Due to the late report of the accident, the accident investigation could not be carried out immediately. During the accident investigation process, the unit involved failed to provide the accident investigation team with the blade debris, accident engine room, air terminal, lightning protection grounding down conductor, etc. as required. Physical evidence of important facts. In September, the Northeast Energy Regulatory Bureau formally filed a case against the involved units. In October, the Northeast Energy Regulatory Bureau issued an "Administrative Penalty Decision" to the company involved and its principal responsible persons.
After the investigation, it was determined that the company failed to report the accident information to the regulatory authorities responsible for safety supervision within the prescribed time limit after the accident, and during the accident investigation process, it destroyed the accident site, concealed important parts of the accident, and passively provided accident information. The above behavior violates the provisions of Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Regulations on Reporting, Investigation and Handling of Production Safety Accidents and Article 83, paragraph 2, of the Production Safety Law of the People's Republic of China. According to the provisions of Articles 110 and 115 of the "Production Safety Law of the People's Republic of China", the main person in charge of the enterprise was fined 76% of the previous year's income, or 268,000 yuan. In accordance with Article 36, Item 2 of the Regulations on Reporting, Investigation and Handling of Production Safety Accidents and the National Energy Administration’s Administrative Punishment Discretionary Standards, the Northeast Energy Regulatory Bureau imposed a fine of 2.8 million yuan on the unit involved. At the same time, according to the National Energy Administration's "Credit Behavior List of Energy Industry Market Entities (2022 Edition)", it will be pushed to the National Energy Administration's "Credit Energy" platform in accordance with the procedures, and credit classification supervision will be carried out on them.
Case 24: Administrative penalty case against an engineering company by the Central China Regulatory Bureau of the National Energy Administration
From May to June 2023, when the Central China Energy Regulatory Bureau conducted an on-site inspection of electric power production safety work at a power plant in Wuhan, it was discovered that an engineering company, the construction unit, had the following problems: First, the company's project department did not erect scaffolding in a standardized manner during operations, and There was no acceptance signboard at the site, no isolation area was set up below the high-altitude working site, no obvious warning signs were set up, and no measures were taken to eliminate potential accident risks; secondly, there were people in the water tank of the liquid ammonia transformation project carried out by the company's project department. The hole door is not blocked and there are no warning signs. In August 2023, the Central China Energy Regulatory Bureau formally launched an investigation into the company, and issued an "Administrative Penalty Decision" in October 2023.
After investigation, it was determined that the above-mentioned behavior of the company violated the provisions of Article 41, Paragraph 2 and Article 35 of the Production Safety Law. Considering that the person in charge of the project department of the engineering company actively cooperated with the investigation during the investigation of the case, , and completed the rectification of problems discovered during the inspection within a time limit. According to Article 102 of the Production Safety Law, Paragraph 1 of Article 99, and Paragraph 1 of Article 12 of the National Energy Administration’s Administrative Penalty Discretionary Standards, According to the provisions of this item, the company will be fined 30,000 yuan for the illegal act of failing to take measures to eliminate potential accident hazards, and the company will be fined 30,000 yuan for the illegal act of failing to set up safety warning signs. The above two penalties will be combined and the company will be fined in accordance with the law. A fine of 60,000 yuan was imposed.
Case 25: Administrative penalty case against a new energy power generation company by the Gansu Supervision Office of the National Energy Administration
In June 2023, during the on-site inspection of a new energy power generation company on electric power production safety, the Gansu Energy Supervision Office found that the person in charge of the work left the work site for a long time without authorization while the company was carrying out high-altitude operations for wind turbine tower maintenance. , and no temporary person in charge or safety guardian has been designated. In July 2023, the Gansu Energy Supervision Office launched an investigation into the company in accordance with the law. In September 2023, the Gansu Energy Supervision Office issued an "Administrative Penalty Decision" to the company.
After investigation, it was determined that the company failed to implement hierarchical safety risk management and control measures for high-risk operations such as dedicated on-site supervision, and violated Article 41, Paragraph 1, of the "Production Safety Law of the People's Republic of China": "Production and business units shall establish hierarchical safety risk management and control system, and take corresponding control measures according to the security risk classification." The company failed to learn lessons from the company's electric shock accident, and the safety management loopholes exposed by the accident were not completely plugged, so it was severely punished in accordance with the law. The Gansu Energy Supervision Office imposed a fine of 90,000 yuan on the company in accordance with the provisions of Article 101, Paragraph 4 of the "Production Safety Law of the People's Republic of China".