Chapter 1115 Everyone Is Having a Hard Time

Gongzhan Fan Wubing has long had a problem with the frequent accidents in dry mining. He just doesn't listen to certain sentiments and is reluctant to talk about this matter. Now that Tong Yushan is so angry, Fan Wubing will naturally follow suit, otherwise. I feel a little too sorry for Tong Xiaoyun.

As a result, there have been more and more comments on Tong Yushan’s articles in online media, and more and more problems have been exposed. In the current mining accidents, although the official investigation results have not yet been released, But according to the reporter's interview, there are two direct reasons. First, the miners violated operating procedures and lit the detonator without permission before the gas crew measured the gas concentration.

In the local small coal mines, almost everyone picks up a shovel and becomes a miner. They engage in this high-risk occupation without any training. They wear chemical fiber clothes, and some even bring lighters and cigarettes underground.

Interestingly, some miners think so. In the explosion, the leaders were not responsible. The reason was that two days before the incident, the mine held a safety meeting, and the mine safety director specifically said that more attention should be paid to safety operations in the past few days, and the mine safety manager had just taken office three days ago. The eldest son died in this accident.

Will a meeting solve the problem? It almost goes without saying that poor ventilation is another important cause of explosions.

It is said that the safety facilities of the butterfly mine here are pretty good, but according to the safety production regulations of the butterfly mine, production can only be carried out in the main shaft, and the auxiliary shaft can only be used for walking, pumping and blasting, and an incline is also needed. Wells are used for escape. The outer walls of each mine require high-power blowers and exhaust fans to ensure air convection inside and outside the well and reduce the concentration of escaped gas. Fans are also required for the main tunnel and each working surface.

The fact is that both the main shaft and the auxiliary shaft of the butterfly mine that suffered a mining disaster are in production. Both wells are not equipped with blowers and exhaust fans. There is a hole for installing a fan on the outer wall of the auxiliary shaft, and an exhaust fan has already been transported to the mine. superior. But not until after the accident. It was installed to save people.

A high-power fan originally installed in the main pit has been broken for more than a month, and the mine has replaced it with a small fan. According to the miners, they can hardly feel the wind when walking in the main pit. Blower. Only half of them were used that day.

What's even worse is that the electricity was not normal that day.

According to regulations, miners should be allowed to go to the kiln immediately after a power outage, but the mine manager on duty refused their request to go to the kiln. Instead, the motor is used to generate electricity, and the little electricity is only enough to maintain the small fan and slide.

A major inspection can solve the problem. The coal mine also responded.

The miner told reporters that two days before the accident, an inspection team visited the mine, and another person went down the well wearing a white towel, went through the formalities and then went to eat.

The local official statement is,

Beforehand, the director of the Media Management Bureau led a five-person safety inspection team to the mine to conduct a safety inspection. It was found that there were serious safety hazards in the coal mine. He believed that the Dieme Mine did not meet the basic safety production conditions, and issued a notice of suspension of production and rectification to the mine.

However, the miners did not hear the news of the suspension of production, and the reporter did not see the notice. The facts were enough to explain the problem. The mine continued to produce, and then exploded and killed people.

When a provincial governor who was dealing with a coal mine explosion held an emergency meeting, he sternly denounced that "the mine owners and other responsible persons did not care about the lives of the trapped miners, and they escaped within a lifetime of the accident. The public security organs have not yet caught the fugitive responsible persons, which shows that this is There are countless connections."

In fact, what the governor said is absolutely correct. Almost every major accident involves some leading cadres who have seriously neglected their duties and dereliction of duty. This is the direct cause of major accidents time and time again, and is also a potential factor that may cause accidents in the future.

There have been many accidents in coal mines. The local explanation is that this is a new mine that is being built and produced at the same time, so the safety facilities are not yet complete. Not to mention whether this statement is true, according to the requirements of the State Council, these mines themselves are included in the suspension of production, but the fact is that not even a symbolic gesture has been made. Even when the inspection team arrived several times, the dig was still carried out.

According to local people, the reason why the coal mines that were issued suspension notices were able to ignore the suspension notices from the state to the county coal management bureau and commit crimes was because, according to local people, the main leaders of the county had shares in them.

Local people can tell you with their fingers how many houses a certain leader has in the city, which butterfly mines were opened by a certain leader, and which factories gave the leader secret shares. Of course, these are rumors without any real evidence, but factories and mines are set up in places like this. Without connections and backing, it would be difficult to survive. This backing relies on the ties of economic interests.

However, relying solely on a leader's hat, it may be difficult to explain why orders continue to be given, and why there is such a serious deviation between subjective efforts and objective results.

Obviously, the country's determination to shut down small coal mines this time is also unusual. The State Council promulgated and implemented the "Regulations on the Investigation of Administrative Responsibility for Extraordinary Safety Accidents". This regulation clearly states that when a major safety accident occurs, not only the person directly responsible must be investigated in accordance with the law. Responsibility, and leading cadres must be held accountable for their administrative responsibilities. If the circumstances are serious and constitute a crime, they must also be held criminally accountable in accordance with the law.

After this regulation was implemented, the provincial party committee secretary of a certain province was notified of administrative sanctions due to the huge butterfly mine accident. In fact, even the most money-loving or bureaucratic officials would not face such severe punishment. Indifferent.

After Tong Yushan opened the propaganda department's work rectification. Various departments followed suit, jumping out to analyze the causes of mining accidents from multiple aspects and digging deep into the causes.

The spokesperson of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety Supervision accused some local governments of being influenced by local protectionism and not being positive about closing small coal mines. Measures were not implemented. In particular, due to the improvement of the coal market caused by production cuts, coal supply was tight in some areas, and after the recovery of coal prices, some small coal mines were driven by interests to produce secretly.

This situation obviously exists. For example, in Shanxi. Eighty percent of county fiscal revenues mainly rely on coal mining and coking. In some counties, districts and townships in Luliang and Datong, coal revenues account for more than 70% of local government fiscal revenues. Shanxi was the richest province in the country a hundred years ago. A hundred years later, it has fallen to the last province in the country in terms of per capita income. It is hard to imagine that it will be poorer than Qinghai and Tibet. The Luliang Mountain area is one of the 18 concentrated and contiguous key poverty-stricken areas in the country. It governs three cities and ten counties. All ten counties are national or provincial poverty-stricken counties.

For a poor county with a fiscal revenue of only about 60 million, shutting down small coal mines means that it has almost nothing. After some coal mines were required to stop production, the county's miners in charge of coal production were asking when production could be resumed. Without production, the county could not bear the loss of fiscal revenue, and the monthly salary could not be guaranteed.

The life of migrant miners is not easy either. Although after the mine accident, the family members who took the ashes home repeatedly advised the surviving miners to go home quickly, the miners still stayed in the mine. Because the government froze all the money of the mine owner, their wages were not released, they had no money to go home, and they had no food. In order to save energy, they had two bowls of noodles a day, and most of the time they lay on the bare bed, wearing thick clothes and wrapped in quilts.

These people who work underground all year round always call us suffering people, but they don't think that bending over to dig coal in a tunnel one meter underground is the most painful thing. They said that it is ten times better here than in their hometown. They can earn about 1,000 yuan per month in a small coal mine. Two people work together to dig more than one meter a day. One meter is about 13 trucks, and one truck can hold 500 kilograms of coal. The boss pays 50 yuan for every meter dug.

The reporter asked the miners who had experienced three gas explosions. Will they go down to dig coal again in the future? The miners smiled and said, "Yes, we will dig. What can we do if we don't dig coal? We don't even have food."

It is said that some mine owners are preparing to file a lawsuit in court to ask the government to compensate for the economic losses caused by the suspension of production.

A small coal mine with a capacity of 60,000 to 70,000 tons requires several million yuan in investment. Even if it is suspended, the ventilation, electricity, and drainage cannot be stopped. Otherwise, even if it is abandoned, it will cost at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in maintenance fees every month.

Some people also said that the launch of so many small coal mines is the result of national policy support. Before the 1980s, coal was in short supply. In order to alleviate the energy bottleneck, the state adopted a policy of rapid flow of water. The state, collectives, and individuals worked together to mine the butterfly mine, and the output increased significantly year by year.

For example, in Shanxi at that time, it started from Datong. The Coal Department also organized visits to learn how the village became rich. You can wash coal by setting up a pot.

At that time, the country was short of coal, and what it needed was coal. In the past 20 years, the country has grown by more than ten percentage points every year, and the support of the coal industry has made a huge contribution.

However, after entering the mid-1990s. The coal market has been in oversupply, coal prices have fallen, and state-owned coal mines have generally fallen into the dilemma of losses and bankruptcy. Employees are seriously unemployed, and more problems have been put on the table.

First, townships and small individual coal mines try to reduce or even cancel safety equipment and work procedures. Although four certificates are required to open a coal mine, the mine owners reduce or even cancel safety costs through bribery and make huge profits. It costs about 70,000 to 80,000 yuan to apply for a mining license.

Compared with the cost of about 120 yuan per ton of state-owned mines, the cost of about 30 yuan per ton of small coal mines has a decisive advantage, which of course also means that the possibility of devastating safety accidents is greatly increased.

As many state-owned coal mines went bankrupt, the original coal fields were leased, contracted, and subcontracted to individuals, and mining licenses were also misplaced. In fact, some coal mines have been producing without licenses for a long time.

The state-owned large mines also have mixed feelings about the small coal mines that have sprung up. On the one hand, they are also opening various mines and small wells to accommodate their children. Some large mines even buy coal from small mines and resell it. But on the other hand, after the small coal mines are opened, the large coal mines cannot be opened.

In the summer of 1996, the Xishan Mining Bureau suffered the famous flood.

It rained heavily that day, and a small coal mine that had been mined and abandoned and connected to the Xishan Mine was filled with wastewater and rainwater. According to regulations, the Xishan Mine sealed off its own tunnel and the small coal mine.

It would have been better if it had not been sealed off. As a result, the huge water pressure accumulated in the small coal mine suddenly opened the seal, and the Xishan miners working underground suffered a catastrophe. Thirty-three people were drowned and suffocated to death, and the Xishan Mining Bureau suffered a direct economic loss of 340 million yuan.

In addition to the water and gas accidents that occur at any time, the more serious thing is that the operation mode of small coal mines has caused chaos in the entire industry. This is not just a price issue. It actually stimulates everyone to engage in predatory mining. Formal technological progress has become redundant and the power of mechanization cannot be brought into play. Unlike the state-owned large mines that require a recovery rate of at least 85%, the extensive mining method of small coal kilns can only dig out 10% of the coal, and a large amount of resources are wasted.

In Shanxi, due to excessive bombardment, coal mining, and coking, the green mountains, green waters, and blue skies of the past have disappeared. Dozens of miles away from many mining areas, you can see the thick smoke from the coking plant blocking the sun. Drivers complain that visibility on the road is only ten meters on cloudy days.

Indiscriminate mining has caused water levels to drop. Many reservoirs have dried up. The famous Nanlao Spring in Jinci now flows with tap water. The Fenhe River also stopped flowing in the past few years, and there are bald mountains everywhere. There is no trace of the running water that was everywhere ten years ago. .

In 1998, the state held a meeting to close down illegal and irrationally located coal mines, and began the campaign to close down small coal mines that continues to this day. To appease the place. The state has decentralized key large-scale mining bureaus such as Datong, Yangquan, and Xishan to Shanxi Province. However, most local counties and towns have not increased revenue from it, and the confrontation between local and central governments in terms of power and interests is almost inevitable.

Therefore, some people expressed dissatisfaction, "It is right to close small coal mines. Those that should be closed should be closed immediately. Those that are qualified should be opened immediately. Even if those small coal mines with all four certificates need to be closed, since the national policy has made mistakes, the state Compensation should be made. This policy has been in place for twenty years. Those Xiaodie kilns with all four certificates were approved by the provincial government. Now they are stopped all at once. What will happen to other people’s millions of investments since you were wrong before? , you need to pay the price for wrong policies. After all, this is not an era where executive orders determine everything.”

Some mine owners put it more directly, "I don't care about my life or death, so how can I care about other people's lives and lives?"

But so far at least, the government has made no suggestion of compensation or compensation.

This has formed a terrible evolution. More than 20 years ago, administrative means were relied on to ensure the authority of coal mine safety leadership, and then the deliberate requirements for output and large-scale production made safety regulations relegated to the most secondary position. Now, no matter how complete the system is formulated by the safety management agency, it is no longer respected and abided by the management objects, including the framers, because of the essence of this safety management. In fact, it is a law governed by man.

"When laws and regulations are no longer respected by people, then corruption cannot be avoided." Fan Wubing lamented this.

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