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Blast kills worker at Yangshan
By Dong Hui |
February 7, 2009, Saturday
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ONE worker was killed and 15 injured in an explosion on a construction site at Shanghai's Yangshan Deep Water Port yesterday.
The man who died was pierced by a flying steel rod while lying in his dormitory bed. He was pronounced dead at the scene, his co-workers told reporters.
The injured were having lunch when they were hit by flying cement, stone and metal fragments from the blast, which occurred just after noon.
"There was a big bang that sounded like an explosion," said a worker who declined to be named.
The worker who died was employed by China National Chemical Engineering No. 14 Construction Co Ltd.
Two men suffered fractures and were in stable condition last night, said Nanhui District Central Hospital. The others were released after treatment for bruises.
The accident happened at a Shanghai LNG Co Ltd work site on Ximentang Isle, north of the Yangshan Deep Water Port, an international shipping center about 45 kilometers from Pudong International Airport.
The explosion occurred when workers were adjusting equipment, according to a spokesman for the municipal work safety authority.
The men were working on a liquefied natural gas terminal that is expected to receive 3 million tons of the fuel annually after the first phase becomes operational this year.
When the facility is finished, LNG shipped by sea from Malaysia will be transformed into a gaseous state and sent to downtown Shanghai through pipes.
The explosion occurred during a pressure test of the equipment, according to the city government media office. Workers were pumping air into a gasifier when some 500 meters of the piping network burst into fragments, buckling cement crossbeams.
The cause of the rupture was still under investigation last night, the Shanghai Commission of Safety Production said.
The general contractor team includes Japan-based Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd, Taiwan's CTCI Co and Wuhuan Engineering Co Ltd, said the media office.
The man who died was pierced by a flying steel rod while lying in his dormitory bed. He was pronounced dead at the scene, his co-workers told reporters.
The injured were having lunch when they were hit by flying cement, stone and metal fragments from the blast, which occurred just after noon.
"There was a big bang that sounded like an explosion," said a worker who declined to be named.
The worker who died was employed by China National Chemical Engineering No. 14 Construction Co Ltd.
Two men suffered fractures and were in stable condition last night, said Nanhui District Central Hospital. The others were released after treatment for bruises.
The accident happened at a Shanghai LNG Co Ltd work site on Ximentang Isle, north of the Yangshan Deep Water Port, an international shipping center about 45 kilometers from Pudong International Airport.
The explosion occurred when workers were adjusting equipment, according to a spokesman for the municipal work safety authority.
The men were working on a liquefied natural gas terminal that is expected to receive 3 million tons of the fuel annually after the first phase becomes operational this year.
When the facility is finished, LNG shipped by sea from Malaysia will be transformed into a gaseous state and sent to downtown Shanghai through pipes.
The explosion occurred during a pressure test of the equipment, according to the city government media office. Workers were pumping air into a gasifier when some 500 meters of the piping network burst into fragments, buckling cement crossbeams.
The cause of the rupture was still under investigation last night, the Shanghai Commission of Safety Production said.
The general contractor team includes Japan-based Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd, Taiwan's CTCI Co and Wuhuan Engineering Co Ltd, said the media office.
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