Recently, the official website of the Shanxi Provincial Emergency Management Department released the "Investigation Report on the Major Fire Accident of the Office Building of Shanxi Luliang Yongju Coal Industry Co., Ltd. on November 16".
According to the investigation of the accident investigation team, this is a production safety liability accident caused by the failure to implement the main responsibility of enterprise safety, the installation of electric hanging baskets in excess of the quota, the illegal laying of hanging basket power supply lines, the illegal storage of miner's lamps, oxygen self-rescuers, self-spraying paint and other combustible materials in the wellhead bathroom, the chaotic safety management, the short circuit of the hanging basket power supply line ignited the combustibles in the hanging basket, the initial fire disposal is not effective, and the local party committee and government and relevant departments do not perform their duties in place.
Event recap
At about 6:30 on November 16, 2023, a fire broke out in the bathroom on the second floor of the joint construction office building of Yongju Coal Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "joint building") in Lishi District, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, resulting in 26 deaths and 38 injuries, with a fire area of about 900 square meters and a direct economic loss of 49.9026 million yuan.
The cause of the accident
Comprehensive investigation and inquiry, on-site investigation, video analysis, experimental verification and technical appraisal, it was determined that the fire time was about 6:30 on November 16, and the direct cause of the fire was the damage and short circuit between the insulation layer of the main power supply line of the motor and the metal wire card above the No. 0625 hanging basket in the large changing area of the wellhead bathroom on the second floor, igniting the combustibles in the hanging basket below. In addition, the emergency response in the early stage of the accident was ineffective, which eventually caused heavy casualties.
Accident liability handling
After the accident, the public security organs took criminal coercive measures against 18 enterprise personnel suspected of violating the law and committing crimes, and the discipline inspection and supervision organs strictly held accountable the 42 public employees suspected of violating discipline and law in the accident.
Among the 18 people who took criminal coercive measures, 10 people, including Han Wenming, the actual person in charge of Yongju Coal Industry, Ma Feng, the mine manager, Shen Wenwen, the deputy mine director of safety, Ma Jianguo, the deputy mine director of the mechanical and electrical department, Yan Zhanwang, the deputy general manager of Dongtai Company, and Chen Ruiqiang, the general manager of Chen Xi Hanging Basket Company, were arrested by the procuratorate on suspicion of major labor safety accidents and major engineering safety accidents.
Wang Maosheng, member of the leading party group and deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Energy Bureau, is under investigation on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law; Sun Hongyong, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Chengbei Sub-district of Lishi District, Luliang City, and Feng Penghu, deputy director of the Chengbei Sub-district Office, have been expelled from the party and dismissed from public office for serious violations of discipline and law, and have been transferred to the judicial organs for examination and prosecution.
At the same time, 39 public officials of the party committees and governments of Luliang City, Lishi District, and Chengbei sub-districts, as well as the departments of energy, housing and construction, fire rescue, natural resources, emergency management, and mine supervision, were seriously dealt with in the accident. Among them, Sun Dajun, secretary of the Luliang City CPC Committee, was admonished; Zhang Guangyong, deputy secretary of the Luliang City CPC Committee and mayor, was given an administrative warning; Lian Haiping, secretary of the Lishi District CPC Committee, was given a serious warning within the party; Zhang Haiwen, deputy secretary of the Lishi District CPC Committee and head of the district, was given the punishment of having a serious administrative record; Gao Yanlong, former secretary of the party committee and director of the Luliang City Emergency Management Bureau, was expelled from the party and dismissed from government affairs; and the former party secretary of the Luliang City Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau was given Qu Xiaodong, director of the bureau, was given a serious warning within the party, and other relevant responsible persons were given party discipline and government sanctions or organizational punishment.
Source: Shanxi Provincial Department of Emergency Management