13 killed at Chinese plant in 1,000-degree explosion
By Li Qian |
February 22, 2012, Wednesday
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An explosion rocked a steel plant on Monday night in northeast China, killing at least 13 workers and leaving another 17 injured, officials said yesterday.
Six of the 17 suffered burns over 65 percent of their bodies and were in a critical condition last night. Two had burns over most of their bodies, the Anshan City hospital authority said.
The accident happened when a mold exploded at 11:30pm at a steel-casting workshop owned by Angang Steel Heavy Machinery Co Ltd, according to a statement by the publicity department of Liaoning's provincial committee of the Communist Party of China. The mold, about 10 meters in diameter, exploded, and sand and concrete inside burst out when workers were about to finish casting a ring-shaped piece of steel, a worker who survived the blast told Xinhua news agency.
The temperature inside the mold was more than 1,000 degrees Celsius at the time and the wood, plastic and other material piled around the mold immediately caught fire.
The local work safety authority is investigating the incident, Xinhua said.
Ten people were found dead early yesterday morning, and by noon rescuers had retrieved the bodies of three others who had previously been reported missing, Xinhua said.
Of the 17 injured workers, all men aged from 20 to 51, 11 were in a stable condition with slight injuries, Xinhua said, citing Liu Yi, an Anshan public hospitals administration official.
The No. 1 Hospital affiliated to China Pharmaceutical University where the injured are being treated is the best hospital in China's northeast regions for the treatment of burns, Liu told reporters.
Provincial health authorities have sent a medical team to help treat the injured workers.
Angang Steel Heavy Machinery Co Ltd was once a wholly owned subsidiary of the state-run Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corp. In 2005, it became a shareholding company, with the corporation owning 49 percent of its shares. The 72-year-old company is one of the China's largest machine manufacturers in the metallurgy industry, according to Xinhua.
Anshan is about 90 kilometers from the provincial capital city of Shenyang.
Six of the 17 suffered burns over 65 percent of their bodies and were in a critical condition last night. Two had burns over most of their bodies, the Anshan City hospital authority said.
The accident happened when a mold exploded at 11:30pm at a steel-casting workshop owned by Angang Steel Heavy Machinery Co Ltd, according to a statement by the publicity department of Liaoning's provincial committee of the Communist Party of China. The mold, about 10 meters in diameter, exploded, and sand and concrete inside burst out when workers were about to finish casting a ring-shaped piece of steel, a worker who survived the blast told Xinhua news agency.
The temperature inside the mold was more than 1,000 degrees Celsius at the time and the wood, plastic and other material piled around the mold immediately caught fire.
The local work safety authority is investigating the incident, Xinhua said.
Ten people were found dead early yesterday morning, and by noon rescuers had retrieved the bodies of three others who had previously been reported missing, Xinhua said.
Of the 17 injured workers, all men aged from 20 to 51, 11 were in a stable condition with slight injuries, Xinhua said, citing Liu Yi, an Anshan public hospitals administration official.
The No. 1 Hospital affiliated to China Pharmaceutical University where the injured are being treated is the best hospital in China's northeast regions for the treatment of burns, Liu told reporters.
Provincial health authorities have sent a medical team to help treat the injured workers.
Angang Steel Heavy Machinery Co Ltd was once a wholly owned subsidiary of the state-run Anshan Iron & Steel Group Corp. In 2005, it became a shareholding company, with the corporation owning 49 percent of its shares. The 72-year-old company is one of the China's largest machine manufacturers in the metallurgy industry, according to Xinhua.
Anshan is about 90 kilometers from the provincial capital city of Shenyang.
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