China News Agency, Zhengzhou, June 12 (Reporter Dong Fei) Six persons in charge were investigated for criminal responsibility, and 30 public officials were subject to disciplinary and administrative sanctions. After a lapse of nearly a year, Henan Province officially notified the accountability of the major explosion accident at the Yima Gasification Plant.
Henan Provincial Work Safety Committee held an education TV and telephone conference on the province's work safety promotion warning on the 12th. The above situation was reported at the meeting.
At 17:43 on July 19, 2019, an explosion occurred at the C air separation unit of the Yima Gasification Plant of Henan Gas Group Co., Ltd., killing 15 people and seriously injuring 16 people. The direct economic loss was RMB 81.7 million.
Wu Zhonghua, director of the Henan Provincial Emergency Management Department, reported at the meeting that the direct cause of the accident was a leak in the connecting pipeline of the cold box valve of the C-set air separation plant of the Yima Gasification Plant. Leakage into the pearlite sand, the overpressure of the cold box is violently blasted, and the support frame and cold box plate are cold and brittle at low temperature, causing the cold box to collapse, smashing the liquid oxygen storage tank on the east side and the oil tank of the liquid oxygen tank car parked beside , Liquid oxygen leaks, combustibles, and excitation can cause an explosion.
The root cause of the accident is that the Henan Energy and Chemical Group, Henan Gas Group and Yima Gasification Plant have a weak security development concept, a weak awareness of safety development, heavy production and light safety, inadequate parking decision-making mechanism, too many management levels, and formalism. The bureaucracy is serious, and every level of research asks for instructions. From the discovery of a leak to the occurrence of an accident, it took 23 days to stop maintenance according to the safety management system and operating procedures, resulting in equipment running ill, with hidden dangers dragging again and again, from small to large, to an explosion; illegal production operations, the parking No parking, equipment management is not standardized, standby equipment can not start switching at any time, do not carry out hidden danger investigation according to the regulations, and report the hidden dangers faithfully.
Liu Jianguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, reported the relevant situation of the accountability of the accident. Among them, 6 persons in charge of the companies involved in the explosion were held criminally responsible and were arrested for suspected major liability accidents; 30 public officials were subject to party discipline and government punishment; at the same time, a number of persons involved in related companies were also held accountable deal with. (Finish)