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Metro mishaps kill 2, injure 6
By Dong Hui |
January 9, 2009, Friday
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ONE worker died and six were severely injured when they were stranded underground during a blaze that swept through a Metro Line 11 construction site in Shanghai's Putuo District yesterday morning.
Hours before, at a Metro Line 9 construction project in Huangpu District, a 50-ton crane toppled and crushed its operator to death.
The alarm sounded at about 11am for the Line 11 fire at the future site of the Caoyang Road Station. When firefighters arrived, they learned that workers were stranded more than 20 meters below ground among the rapidly spreading flames.
Smoke rose more than 10 stories high from the site and drifted over the nearby station for lines 3 and 4. Carriages going by the station were engulfed in heavy smoke.
More than 10 fire engines and two ambulances rushed to the scene. At least 20 firefighters searched for survivors underground.
Witnesses saw one worker lifted out by firefighters at about 11:55am. The fire was put out around noon, and the last stranded worker was rescued at 12:24pm.
One worker was found dead at the scene. Five were being treated at Ruijin Hospital's intensive care unit last night, all in critical condition, said the hospital's Li Nan.
"They inhaled a lot of chemical smoke and were severely burned," Li said. "Three of them can't breathe on their own, and some suffered fractures."
The other injured worker was in stable condition at Putuo District Central Hospital.
The fire may have been caused by a short-circuit in electrical equipment, the city government media office said. But the Shanghai Rail Transport Construction Headquarters said the exact cause of the blaze was still under investigation.
The other accident took place about 9:40am at a construction site for what will be Line 9's Xiaonanmen Station on Zhonghua Road.
A crane with a boom more than 30 meters long was lowering steel tubes below ground when it overturned, gashing a big hole in the fence on Zhonghua Road.
The driver was crushed in his cab and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Hours before, at a Metro Line 9 construction project in Huangpu District, a 50-ton crane toppled and crushed its operator to death.
The alarm sounded at about 11am for the Line 11 fire at the future site of the Caoyang Road Station. When firefighters arrived, they learned that workers were stranded more than 20 meters below ground among the rapidly spreading flames.
Smoke rose more than 10 stories high from the site and drifted over the nearby station for lines 3 and 4. Carriages going by the station were engulfed in heavy smoke.
More than 10 fire engines and two ambulances rushed to the scene. At least 20 firefighters searched for survivors underground.
Witnesses saw one worker lifted out by firefighters at about 11:55am. The fire was put out around noon, and the last stranded worker was rescued at 12:24pm.
One worker was found dead at the scene. Five were being treated at Ruijin Hospital's intensive care unit last night, all in critical condition, said the hospital's Li Nan.
"They inhaled a lot of chemical smoke and were severely burned," Li said. "Three of them can't breathe on their own, and some suffered fractures."
The other injured worker was in stable condition at Putuo District Central Hospital.
The fire may have been caused by a short-circuit in electrical equipment, the city government media office said. But the Shanghai Rail Transport Construction Headquarters said the exact cause of the blaze was still under investigation.
The other accident took place about 9:40am at a construction site for what will be Line 9's Xiaonanmen Station on Zhonghua Road.
A crane with a boom more than 30 meters long was lowering steel tubes below ground when it overturned, gashing a big hole in the fence on Zhonghua Road.
The driver was crushed in his cab and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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