In order to solidly promote the implementation of the 36 "hard measures" of the three-year action to tackle the root cause of production safety, give full play to the warning and education role of typical law enforcement cases, and urge all kinds of production and business operation units to implement the main responsibility of production safety, our bureau decided to announce a case of major accidents and hidden violations of industrial and trade enterprises that have been investigated and dealt with recently, and all production and business operation units are requested to take it as a warning:
1. Basic circumstances of the case
On August 16, 2024, the law enforcement officers of our bureau conducted a law enforcement inspection on a new material Co., Ltd. in Beichen Development Zone, and found that three sawing lathes in the wooden box processing workshop of the unit were cutting wood products, and combustible dust (wood dust) would be generated during the production process. Item (6) of Article 11 of the "Standards for Determining the Hidden Dangers of Major Accidents in Industry and Trade Enterprises" clearly requires the installation of safety equipment, and the company has closed the safety equipment directly related to production safety. As the main person in charge of the company, Liu failed to perform the safety production management duties of eliminating the hidden dangers of production safety accidents in a timely manner.
Second, the standard basis for major accidents
Criteria for Determining the Hidden Dangers of Major Accidents in Industrial and Trade Enterprises
Article 11 In any of the following circumstances, an industrial and trade enterprise with a risk of dust explosion shall be judged to be a major accident hazard:
(6) The dry dust removal system of metal dust such as aluminum and magnesium and wood dust is not equipped with an air-lock ash discharge device.
Article 14 In the circumstances listed in this standard, the monitoring, alarm, protection and other facilities, equipment and devices directly related to production safety shall ensure normal operation and use, and failure or invalidity shall be judged as a major accident hazard.
3. Handling measures
The company's act of shutting down the air-locking ash discharge device directly related to production safety violated the provisions of Article 36, Paragraph 3 of the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, and in accordance with the provisions of Article 99 (4) of the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, the party was ordered to make corrections within a time limit and imposed an administrative penalty of a fine of RMB 10,000. Liu, the main person in charge of the company, failed to perform the duty of safety production management to eliminate the hidden dangers of production safety accidents in a timely manner, which violated the provisions of Article 21, Item (5) of the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, and in accordance with the provisions of Article 94, Paragraph 1 of the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, Liu was ordered to make corrections within a time limit and imposed an administrative penalty of a fine of RMB 20,000.
Source: Tianjin Beichen District Emergency Management Bureau
Editor/Reviewer: Zhu Xinkai
Review: Liu Chunxiang