The press conference held by the Ministry of Emergency Management on the 20th announced the cause of the "8.14" major accident in the Chaidar Coal Mine in Haibei Prefecture, Qinghai, which was that the top of the Chaidar Coal Mine +3690 comprehensive discharge work surface was not completely drained, the working surface was abnormally watered, and many times before the comprehensive mining bracket, there were many local pieces of help to the top, and even the hydraulic support was "crushed to death" and the working surface was blocked, but no effective measures were taken to deal with it, illegal risk dredging, and forced top lifting operations, resulting in top coal pumping, a large number of top coal, The mixture of slag and water quickly collapsed into the working surface and the transport trough in the form of a mudslide, resulting in an accident. At 12:10 on August 14, 2021, a sand collapse accident occurred in the Chaidar Coal Mine of Xihai Coal Development Co., Ltd. in Haibei Prefecture, Qinghai Province, resulting in sand collapse and mud collapse, resulting in 20 deaths and direct economic losses of 53.9102 million yuan. (Reporter Liu Xiacun)

Source: Xinhua News Agency