Fireworks plants ordered shut
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August 20, 2010, Friday
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AUTHORITIES in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have ordered all nine fireworks factories in the province to shut down after a blast at one of the plants on Monday killed 20 people.
The nine factories have been ordered to dismantle their production facilities by the end of the month and to dispose of their fireworks-manufacturing materials by September 15, a Heilongjiang Provincial Work Safety Administration spokesman said yesterday.
In addition to causing the 20 deaths, the explosion on Monday at the fireworks factory in the Wumahe District of Yichun City injured 153, while four others are still unaccounted for.
Three government officials and two factory executives have been sacked or detained over the deadly explosion, according to a statement on Wednesday from the Yichun Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Zhao Weiqiang, deputy head of Wumahe District and in charge of work safety, has been removed from his post. Cheng Chuanxin, head of the Wumahe District Work Safety Bureau, was also removed from his post.
Police have detained Liu Chunya, an inspector at the work safety bureau; Jin Chaoxiang, head of the fireworks factory; and Zhou Shiji, deputy head of the factory.
A preliminary investigation showed the plant was illegally producing fireworks, as the local work safety department canceled its production permit in June, according to a statement issued on Tuesday by the State Administration of Work Safety.
The plant was requested in June to suspend production and improve factory safety, according to the statement.
The nine factories have been ordered to dismantle their production facilities by the end of the month and to dispose of their fireworks-manufacturing materials by September 15, a Heilongjiang Provincial Work Safety Administration spokesman said yesterday.
In addition to causing the 20 deaths, the explosion on Monday at the fireworks factory in the Wumahe District of Yichun City injured 153, while four others are still unaccounted for.
Three government officials and two factory executives have been sacked or detained over the deadly explosion, according to a statement on Wednesday from the Yichun Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Zhao Weiqiang, deputy head of Wumahe District and in charge of work safety, has been removed from his post. Cheng Chuanxin, head of the Wumahe District Work Safety Bureau, was also removed from his post.
Police have detained Liu Chunya, an inspector at the work safety bureau; Jin Chaoxiang, head of the fireworks factory; and Zhou Shiji, deputy head of the factory.
A preliminary investigation showed the plant was illegally producing fireworks, as the local work safety department canceled its production permit in June, according to a statement issued on Tuesday by the State Administration of Work Safety.
The plant was requested in June to suspend production and improve factory safety, according to the statement.
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