When Wang Jianlu fell to the ground, he was still wearing a yellow hard hat and camouflage pants.
Sweat-soaked T-shirt stuck to him, green tool bag pressed under him, water bottle beside his feet.
On July 5th, on the way home from work, the construction worker fell into the high temperature air in Xi'an next to the curb.
According to the monitoring of the National Climate Center, from June 1 to July 12, the average number of high temperature days in China was the highest in the same period since 1961.
The number of high temperature days in Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei and other places is 5 to 10 days longer than the same period in normal years.
As of July 12, the highest temperature in 71 national weather stations across the country has exceeded the historical extreme. The high temperature has lasted for 30 days, covering a land area of 5.021 million square kilometers and affecting more than 900 million people.
According to media reports, hospitals in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places have treated more than a dozen patients with heat stroke, and four of them died of heat stroke. Wang Jianlu was one of them.
Heat stroke is the most severe form of severe heat stroke.
Liu Yecheng, deputy director of the emergency department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, once said in an interview with the media that the fatality rate of heat stroke can reach 70% to 80%, mainly because the ambient temperature and humidity around the body are too high, and the body's temperature regulation function fails. The core temperature exceeds 40 degrees Celsius and is accompanied by some functional impairment of the nervous system, which may cause confusion, syncope, hallucinations and convulsions.
It is hard to know what Wang Jianlu experienced before he fell.
He fell silently.
On the sixth day after his death, the co-workers who worked with him for the last time were called to the police station to make a record before learning of his death.
They used to work in the same labor market and were greeted by the foreman. On the morning of July 5, 15 people took 4 taxis to the construction site.
This is the 56-year-old Wang Jianlu's last visit to the construction site.
After he collapsed on the way home, passersby dialed 120, and the hospital staff looked up several contact information from his mobile phone without a password and called them one by one.
Wang Jianlu's cousin also received a call. He asked the other party's owner's name, but the other party couldn't tell, so the cousin hung up as a scam call.
Wang Jianlu rented a private house in an urban village with a monthly rent of 260 yuan.
It was not until his death that his family confirmed the approximate location of his residence through several fellow villagers and co-workers.
The nephew found Wang Jianlu's ID card and bank card between the mattress and the bed. Except for the fan, which was added not long ago at the urging of his family, there were almost no items in the room that needed to be taken away.
This honest farmer started to go out to work more than ten years ago.
Before coming to Xi'an, he had been working on construction sites in Xinjiang.
When the child was young, he would go out during the slack farming season. When his children went to school, his lover would go to work with him, and he would only go home for a month or two during the Chinese New Year.
The children live and eat at their cousin's house. He can't give them any money, so he helps with the work in the fields.
He pulled the firewood for burning, chopped it up one by one, and cleaned up the yard before going home.
My daughter remembers that when my father came back from work one year, he brought two bags of raisins "that I was tired of eating in Xinjiang".
One bag is for her to bring to the teacher, saying that she should respect the teacher and thank the teacher for teaching her knowledge, and the other bag is for her to share with her roommates.
"Later I learned from their co-workers that they are usually on the construction site, and the construction site is more remote. They only go to the market when they want to go home. When I bought it, my father only bought a little bit, and they didn't buy it along the way. Willing to eat."
More than a month ago, Wang Jianlu took a train from his hometown of Ningqiang County, Shaanxi to Xi'an to save some cash for his son who was about to go to college.
He "has no skills" and can only do small jobs such as pulling bricks and mixing cement.
Workers commented that he was "extremely honest, no one supervises him or not, and he was never lazy."
At the construction site, they receive one or two thousand yuan a month for living expenses, and other wages are settled at the end of the year.
The timing of settlements is often delayed over and over again.
Before coming to Xi'an this time, his salary of nearly 60,000 yuan last year was still in arrears.
Relatives felt that Wang Jianlu was often deceived because he was honest and not good at words.
In the end, the unpaid wages were transferred to his family the day after his death hit the social media hot search list.
"Let's talk less" "Be honest, whoever has a job takes the initiative to help out" "I haven't blushed with anyone"... Relatives sat at Wang Jianlu's house and recalled him.
Wang Jianlu's son remembered that he spent more than 40 hours in Xinjiang during the summer vacation of his senior year, and worked with his father on the construction site for the summer vacation.
The father and son lived in the prefabricated house on the construction site, with seven or eight people squeezed into one house.
That was the longest time the father and son had been together day and night, and what his father told him the most was "be careful".
My daughter remembers that when she was a child, her whole family went to the street. The first time she saw a color TV that was playing a program, she and her brother stood at the door of the house and kept watching, and then asked Wang Jianlu, can we buy such a flower-watching doll?
A year later, Wang Jianlu spent eight or nine hundred yuan to buy an old-fashioned color TV.
There is no traffic on the mountain, so we rely on walking to travel. It takes an hour and a half to walk from home to the town, and the things I buy are brought home in a backpack.
The two children met him on the way. Wang Jianlu distributed lighter things to the children and walked home with a color TV on his back.
According to the Xi'an Meteorological Observatory, Xi'an experienced the hottest June since 1951.
From July 7th to 9th, the highest temperature reached 42 degrees Celsius for 3 consecutive days.
On July 5, there were local showers and the temperature dropped slightly.
However, the worker who worked with Wang Jianlu that day admitted that he did not feel the drop in temperature at work.
They started work at 6:30 in the morning, and the task was to remove the formwork in the basement - after the concrete structure was poured, when a certain strength was reached, the outer wooden formwork was removed.
A worker said, "The concrete inside has not been beaten for a while. After the formwork is removed, I can feel it dissipating heat."
The morning work ends at 11:00, and the workers find a place to have lunch and resume work at 2:00 in the afternoon.
A construction worker who was doing the same job at a construction site in Shandong recorded a video of himself at work. The whole portrait was just fished out of the water. "Only colleagues can understand the bitterness of it."
In 2012, the State Administration of Work Safety and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions jointly issued the "Management Measures for Heatstroke Prevention and Cooling Measures", which stipulated that when the daily maximum temperature exceeds 40 degrees Celsius, outdoor open-air operations on the day should be stopped; The accumulated time shall not exceed 6 hours, and outdoor open-air operations shall not be arranged within 3 hours of the highest temperature period; when the temperature is 35-37 degrees Celsius, methods such as changing shifts and taking shifts shall be adopted to shorten the continuous working time of workers, and no outdoor open-air workers shall be arranged to work overtime. .
In some places, such measures are still being improved.
In July this year, the Fujian Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Safe Production in High Temperature Weather in Housing and Construction Systems", which stipulates that when the daily maximum temperature is above 35 degrees Celsius, outdoor open-air operations are strictly prohibited from 11:00 to 15:00.
If conditions permit, a pergola and drinking water point should be set up, with enough drinking water, herbal tea, cool oil, and Huoxiangzhengqi water.
For the front-line sanitation workers, during the high temperature weather, the work system is adopted to avoid high temperature and staggered hours, supporting sanitation workers’ rest houses, equipping with necessary life service supplies and medicines, and actively coordinating public institutions and caring businesses to open sanitation workers’ “Love Service Points”, so that sanitation workers can work in During the work process, take a break and escape the heat.
At the same time, strengthen the publicity and education of high temperature protection knowledge, and popularize medical knowledge and countermeasures such as high temperature and heatstroke first aid to the workers.
Some high temperature safety protection measures are also quietly carried out in various places.
In Zhejiang, Jiaxing Customs stipulates that staff should not wear protective clothing for more than two hours, and are equipped with cooling vests, waist-mounted fans, and Huoxiangzhengqi water.
In Yichang, Hubei, some buses have been transformed into mobile "cooling cars", and urban construction workers and outdoor workers can get on the bus for free to escape the heat.
In Nanchang, Jiangxi, in order to prevent heatstroke among medical staff, the protective clothing of outdoor nucleic acid sampling personnel was replaced with disposable isolation clothing. The sampling personnel changed their guards within one hour, and placed refrigerators, fans, and ice cubes around the medical staff to help cool down.
Wuhan has opened more than 1,500 community cooling spots, and there are also places such as supermarkets, subway stations, and air raid shelters that provide cooling services.
On the day Wang Jianlu fell, the highest temperature in Xi'an was 34 degrees Celsius, which did not meet the stipulated standard of stopping outdoor work or taking measures to shorten the continuous working time of workers.
His co-workers said they were accustomed to working in the heat.
In construction sites with refrigerators, they bring two 1.5-liter bottles of ice water to work in the morning. In some construction sites, there will be several fans placed to make Huoxiang Zhengqi water.
They said, "We have to work harder this year." "The projects that are still open this year are all working overtime to meet the deadline." They heard of "heat stroke" for the first time because of Wang Jianlu's death, and they knew that severe heat stroke would kill people.
The last call Wang Jianlu received before his death was at 6:21 pm on the 5th, and the other party asked him if he could go to work the next day.
Wang Jianlu was a little slurred when he answered.
The co-workers who worked together that day did not pay attention to what was wrong with Wang Jianlu. The surveillance video left the last few clips of his life: Wang Jianlu, who was waiting for the settlement of wages, walked across the road alone, leaning on a white car, sitting on your own kit.
In addition to the tools for work, there are several pieces of clean clothes in the bag. In the past, he used to change into clean clothes before going home after work.
The daughter said that he was afraid of dirtying the seat or others when taking public transportation.
On that day, through the WeChat payment code, he received 260 yuan for the day's wages.
Wang Jianlu followed the workers, but he gradually fell behind, and he was the only one left.
Later, he fainted at the crossroads near the Xi'an International Medical Center.
The nephew working in Xi'an was the first family member to arrive at the hospital.
According to him, Wang Jianlu's body temperature was 43 degrees Celsius when he was sent to the hospital.
A record from the hospital showed that the death was diagnosed as multiple organ failure and heat stroke, and clinical death was pronounced at 2:10 on July 6.
On July 17, the responsible party of the construction site reached an agreement with them, and the construction site would pay Wang Jianlu's funeral expenses and pay compensation for his work-related death.
Wang Jianlu's daughter has just turned 30, and she has to take on many things after her father's death.
According to the custom of my hometown, my father's relics should be burned.
The new clothes she bought for her father, Wang Jianlu, hadn't worn much yet.
She remembered that before she got married, she and her lover bought a suit for her father.
They walked around the street for a long time, and Wang Jianlu thought it was too expensive.
In the end, he agreed to buy a blue tracksuit, because he could wear it when he went out to work.
At the wedding, he was reticent and did not speak.
The daughter doesn't know if the father has something to keep for himself before he leaves.
Wang Jianlu's son choked and said that he was admitted to university for the first time in 2015. In order to earn money as soon as possible to support his family, he chose to drop out of school to work. His father didn't say anything, but he was always unhappy.
"I know that my dad's wish is for us to study." In August last year, he returned to school to repeat his studies. This time, the college entrance examination was the first in the town, and he will go to university in September.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Ma Yuping Source: China Youth Daily