China News Service Qinghai Gangcha, August 15 (Li Jiangning, Li Jun, Qi Zengbei) "Last month, on July 11, 2021, there was a collapse in the mining area. It was not as serious as this time. Then we were transferred to it. To clean up the mud, we looked particularly dangerous after we went.” In the early morning of the 15th, after the "8·14" roof fall accident in Qinghai, Qi Yongcun, a miner in the accident mining area, told reporters.

　　Qi Yongcun is 34 years old and has worked in the mining area for 10 years and has extensive underground work experience.

After the accident happened last month, Qi Yongcun believed that there was a serious safety hazard in the mining area, and reported the incident to the emergency management department in real name. Subsequently, the staff of the Coal Mine Supervision Department of the Qinghai Provincial Emergency Management Department conducted an investigation.

　　On August 2, the coal mine was ordered by the Qinghai Coal Supervision Bureau to suspend production for rectification, and temporarily detained its safety production license, and was conducting hidden danger investigation and rectification.

The picture shows the overall view of the mining area where the incident occurred.

Photo by Ma Mingyan

　　It is understood that Qinghai has not had such an underground accident in at least 10 years.

The number of people trapped in the roof fall of the Qaidar coal mine is the highest in history.

　　"The day before the incident, more than 30 people responsible for our cleanup work went down to work at 5:30 in the morning. They were supposed to go to the well to change shifts in 8 hours, but the mine manager brought lunch and dinner to the mine for us to eat, and they worked until the afternoon. It was about 6:40. We made a report to the mine manager and asked to take a break the next morning. The mine manager didn’t say yes or disagree.” Qi Yongcun said, “On August 14, I didn’t go down in the morning. , But other workers went down the well as usual, and as a result, something like this happened."

　　In the view of the miner Shen Guocai, the leaders of the mining area have higher requirements for coal output, and the more the better.

　　"These trapped mine friends are all our brothers who get along day and night. None of our people come out. It really hurts." Shen Guocai said, couldn't help crying.

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