The Cold Thoughts behind the Deflagration Incident in Qingdao

Replay of the incident: At 10:25 on November 22, 2013, the crude oil leaking from the Donghuang oil pipeline of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, a company located in the Qingdao Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shandong Province, entered the municipal drainage culvert, forming a confined space. The accumulation of oil and gas in the culvert caused an explosion in the event of a spark, resulting in 62 deaths, 136 injuries and a direct economic loss of 75.172 million yuan. The report of the accident investigation team of the State Council was published on the website of the State Administration of Safety Supervision on the 11th, rehabilitating the leakage of crude oil to the eight hours of the explosion. According to the survey, the mayor received a short message after 7 hours of leaking.

After the explosion, the Party Central Committee attached great importance to it. The State Council set up an accident investigation team composed of the State Administration of Work Safety, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the Shandong Provincial Government and relevant persons in charge of their departments. It also has a technical group, a management group, and an integrated group. It invites the Supreme People's Procuratorate to send personnel to participate in investigations. After thorough investigations and evidence collection, it is characterized by safety responsibility accidents. The oil pipeline explosion leaks bad social influence, which has caused great damage to the lives and property of the people. Destruction must be thoroughly investigated, and do not allow similar scenes to reappear. The State Council has severely dealt with those responsible, imposed disciplinary sanctions on 48 responsible persons, and transferred 15 responsible persons for suspected crimes to judicial organs for legal responsibilities.

According to the investigation, the reason for this explosion was that the oil pipeline was in disrepair for a long time, and hidden dangers were not eliminated. In addition, the unreasonable layout of oil pipelines and urban sewer lines caused accidental leakage of oil pipelines into the drainage official website, resulting in heavy casualties. The two are closer to the residential area. The relevant standards do not meet the relevant requirements for safe production. Improper emergency handling after the explosion is also a cause of numerous casualties. According to media reports, oil leakage was discovered from 3 o'clock on the 22nd to 10 o'clock. Half-detonation accidents took place and it took more than seven hours from the leakage of crude oil to deflagration. What is the relevant department doing during this time period? If you can make full use of this period of time to report relevant accident information in a timely manner, start the relevant safety accident handling plan, and raise the safety prompt banner at the accident site. Evacuation of nearby and past personnel may avoid this accident and at least reduce the loss to The lowest bar. Unfortunately, this briefing message did not arrive at the mayor until 7 hours later.

The restoration of this accident was to clarify the cause and effect of the incident. It was to make us screaming for alarm. It was to awaken the consciousness of safety responsibilities that some departments were paralyzed. It was safe and non-trivial. The interests of the people were no small matter. We wanted to avoid the recurrence of such tragedies in the future. To ensure the safety of people's lives, we must make painstaking efforts to find out the causes, identify the responsibilities, and implement the reforms. Throughout this country, we must use this as a lesson to carry out investigations of hidden dangers. We must scientifically demonstrate urban construction, rationally allocate urban facilities, and raise awareness of corporate responsibility for safety. The government must establish a plan for the emergency handling of safety accidents, and establish relevant systems and mechanisms to clear information. Pass through the channels to establish a safe production rewards and penalties system, clarify relevant provisions of the legal provisions for safe production responsibilities, seriously investigate the civil and criminal liabilities of the relevant departments and responsible persons, and increase the number of those who try to hide or not report loss or death. Strike hard, smooth the accident investigation and processing information platform to ensure the people's right to know.

Safe production and the interests of the people are critical. We must adhere to this red line at the expense of human development. We are concerned about this incident to ensure that there are no similar time bombs around us. We are deeply concerned that the reason for the incident is that relevant departments can timely Inadequate understanding and internalization of safety production into consciousness, externalization in action, and implementation of accountability for safety production are intended to prevent similar events from occurring in the future. This may be the practical significance of our discussion of this topic.

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