Chapter 53: The Innocent Scapegoat
The details of the incident were quickly figured out after Fan Heng hurried back to the factory.
The reason is simple, and it is infuriating to say it!
In fact, after Fan Henggang became the director of the general assembly workshop, a series of safety rules and regulations were issued under the reminder of Fan Wuxian, one of which was specifically emphasized is fire prevention, and it is clearly stipulated that flammable and volatile organic solvents such as gasoline shall not be used in the workshop to clean up the dirt on the ground or the surface of machinery and equipment, so as to avoid fire.
This matter is naturally very correct, and the employees have strictly complied with it, although they have not done this less before, but since the leader has spoken, his subordinates naturally cannot take it lightly.
But once, for the sake of convenience, a worker still sprinkled gasoline on the mop to clean the ground, but when he bent over, the metal lighter in the pocket of his jacket suddenly fell out and bounced on the hard cement floor.
Fortunately, Fan Heng was at the scene at the time, and shouted in a hurry, and more than a dozen workers held fire extinguishers to form a semicircle to extinguish the fire, which suppressed the fire and avoided a major safety accident.
But this thing is evil from beginning to end, and later, when everyone was idle, they also wanted to reproduce the scene, so they took a lighter and threw it on the ground, but none of them were able to pop open the lid on their own and ignite the gasoline on the ground.
Since this lesson, no one in the workshop, full of workers, has dared to scrub the floor with gasoline in the factory.
But this time Fan Heng went to Guangzhou with technical strength to inspect and study, and the management in the workshop was naturally relaxed, but there was a limit to the relaxation of the employees, at least the rules and regulations still did not dare to joke.
Who knew that after Fan Wuxian and the others left, the above suddenly notified that a leader was going to inspect the factory, and specially emphasized the need to inspect the production of the general assembly workshop.
The environment in the workshop will naturally not be very good, this is not a dust-free and aseptic workshop after 30 years, but a cement floor full of oil sludge mixed with waste paint, although the workers wiped it very carefully, but some things are difficult to clean, so Deputy Director Wang waved his hand and asked everyone to scrub the ground with gasoline.
The first squad leader who was temporarily in charge of the workshop immediately reminded the leaders that there were regulations in the workshop that organic solvents such as gasoline could not be used to clean the floor in the workshop, but Deputy Director Wang believed that this was a disguised conflict with the will and authority of his leadership.
So the fire broke out suddenly, 12 people died on the spot, 7 were seriously injured, and several people were slightly injured, almost all the workers present at that time were injured, but the initiator of this incident, Deputy Director Wang, was uninjured, because he felt that the smell of gasoline was too hurtful, so he went out to breathe, and just escaped this catastrophe.
When Fan Heng returned to the burned workshop, all he saw was the scene after the fire, the four-story building was scorched black, the wooden doors and windows were all charred and ashes, the iron doors made of steel were burned and twisted and deformed, and the cement floor was a little vitrified.
The oil depot is even more miserable, the diameter of more than ten meters of the large oil tank burst, even the top has been sprayed away, the weeds growing on the surrounding land are all ripe and burned, listen to the comrades present said, fortunately the oil tank in the stock is not much, otherwise if the extinguishing is not timely, it is easy to cause a chain reaction of nearby buildings, bringing greater losses, Rao is so, it took everyone a whole afternoon to fight the fire. It was hard to wait for all the oil in the oil tank to be burned before the fire was controlled.
The losses were greatest in the interior of the final assembly workshop, a lot of equipment was completely scrapped, but fortunately only the non-combat parts of military products were installed here, and if the warheads of torpedoes were also installed here, the consequences would not be the same as now.
As soon as Fan Heng returned, he was surrounded by the workers in the workshop, who cried to him about the losses in the workshop, and some people ignored the safety production rules and regulations and supported the workers to use gasoline to clean the ground. The more Fan Heng listened, the more atmospheric he became, and he couldn't wait to immediately go to the factory department to question this matter in person.
However, the fire has been going on for several days, and Deputy Director Wang, who is directly responsible for the accident, is still fine.
This matter, many people know, Wang deputy director is a person with a background, he is a military cadre, after being the first director of the Pingyuan factory Sun Baoqing, he became a son-in-law of the door-to-door children, and later climbed all the way up from the position of ordinary cadres, and when Sun Baoqing stepped down, he was anxious to push him to the position of deputy factory director, so he did it for more than ten years, although he did not rise again, but the relationship between this person in the factory is still very hard, the intertwined power is not small, and the secretary of the factory director has no temper with him.
But the matter is so big, there must always be a scapegoat to take responsibility, Wang deputy director above someone, naturally unwilling to do this Lei Feng, and responsible for the workshop often work a squad leader in the fire to die, counting, how can not find a convincing scapegoat, for this matter, the factory is also a very headache, there is such a big safety accident, if you do not deal with a leader with real power, it is not easy to explain to the top and bottom!
So, the deputy director of Wang, who was anxious to get rid of the responsibility for the fire, turned his attention to Fan Heng, who was on a business trip, and he thought to himself that Fan Heng was just a middle-level leader from ordinary technicians anyway, and there was no too hard backer behind him, so he would not cause any variables.
Therefore, when Fan Heng just rushed back to the workshop, he was taken away by the people of the Public Security Bureau.