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In fact, Fan Wuxian has long had a lot of opinions about the frequent occurrence of mining accidents. It's just that in the past, due to some circumstances, he was reluctant to talk about this matter, but now that Tong Yushan is so angry, Fan Wuxian naturally has to follow suit, otherwise, he will be a little sorry for Tong Xiaoyun.

As a result, more and more comments have been made on Tong Yushan's articles in the online media, and more and more problems have been exposed, just in the current several mining accidents, although the official investigation results have not yet come out, according to the reporter's interview, there are two direct reasons. First, the miners violated operating procedures by igniting the detonator without the gas collector having even measured the gas concentration.

In the small local coal mines, almost all of them picked up shovels and became miners, engaged in this high-risk occupation without any training, wore chemical fiber clothes, and even brought lighters and cigarettes underground.

Interestingly, some miners believe that the leaders were not responsible for the explosion, citing the fact that it was two days before the incident. The mine has just held a safety meeting, and the safety mine manager has specially said that he should pay more attention to safety operations in the past few days, and the son of the safety mine manager, who has just been in office for three days, died in this accident.

Whether or not a meeting solves the problem is almost not discussed, and poor ventilation is another important cause of the explosion.

It is said that the safety facilities of the coal mine here are not bad, but according to the safety production regulations of the coal mine, production can only be carried out in the main shaft, the auxiliary shaft can only be used for walking, pumping and blowing, and an inclined shaft is also needed for escape, and each mine needs to have a high-power blower and exhaust fan to ensure the air convection inside and outside the shaft, reduce not only the escaping gas concentration, but also the main pit and each working face also need fans.

The fact is that the main shaft and the auxiliary shaft of a coal mine where the mining accident occurred were both in production, and neither shaft was equipped with blowers and exhaust fans, but there was a hole for installing fans on the outer wall of the auxiliary shafts, and an exhaust fan had already been transported to the mine, but it was not until after the accident that it was installed in order to save people.

A high-power fan originally installed in the main pit has been broken for more than a month, and the mine replaced it with a small fan, according to the miners, walking in the main pit almost did not feel the wind, and only half of the small blowers in each working face were used that day.

What's worse is that the electricity on that day was not normal.

According to the regulations, the miners should be put to the kiln immediately after a power outage. But the mine manager on duty refused their request to go to the kiln, and instead used a generator to generate his own electricity, which was only enough to sustain small fans and chutes.

Whether the big inspection can solve the problem, the coal mine also answered.

Miners told reporters that two days before the accident, an inspection team had been to the mine, and two people had gone down the mine with white towels and gone through the motions to eat.

According to the local official statement, before the incident, the director of the Coal Management Bureau and a five-member safety inspection team went to the mine to conduct a safety inspection, found that there were serious safety hazards in the mine, believed that the mine did not have the basic conditions for safe production, and issued a notice to the mine to stop production and rectify.

But the miners did not hear the news of the shutdown, and the reporters did not see the notice, and the facts are enough to explain the problem, the mine continues to produce, and then it explodes, and people die.

When an emergency meeting was held by the governor of a certain province who was dealing with the coal mine explosion accident, he angrily denounced: "The mine owner and other responsible persons did not care about the lives of the trapped miners, and fled as soon as the accident occurred." The public security organs have so far not caught those responsible for the fugitives. It shows that there are inextricable links in this, and there are **. ”

As a matter of fact, what the provincial governor said is absolutely right: In almost every major accident, there are some leading cadres who are seriously derelict in their duties and dereliction of duty. This is the direct cause of major accidents again and again, and it is also a potential factor that may cause accidents in the future.

After many accidents in coal mines, the local government has given the argument that this is a new mine, and that it is all under construction and production, so the safety facilities have not yet been perfected, and whether this statement is valid, according to the requirements of the State Council, these mines themselves are among the shutdowns, but the fact is that they have not even made a symbolic gesture, even when the inspection team arrived, they were dug correctly.

According to the locals, the reason why the coal mines that have been issued to stop production notices have turned a deaf ear to the suspension notices from the state down to the county coal management bureau and committed crimes against the wind is that the main leaders of the county have shares in them.

Local people can tell you with their fingers how many houses so-and-so has in the city, which coal mines are opened by so-and-so leaders, and which factories have given dark shares to leaders. Of course, these are rumors without real evidence, but in a place like this, it is difficult to survive without a relationship and a backer, and this backer relies on the bond of economic interests.

However, relying only on a ** hat, I am afraid it is difficult to explain why there is more than one order, and why there is such a serious deviation between subjective effort and objective effect.

Obviously, the state's determination to shut down small coal mines this time is also extraordinary, and the State Council has promulgated and implemented the "Provisions on Investigating Administrative Responsibility for Extraordinarily Serious Safety Accidents," which clearly states that major safety accidents occur. It is necessary to investigate the responsibility of not only those directly responsible but also the administrative responsibility of leading cadres, and if the circumstances are serious and constitute a crime, they must also be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.

After this regulation was put into effect, the secretary of the provincial party committee of a certain province was notified of the administrative punishment for the extraordinarily serious coal mine accident, and in fact, even the most money-loving or bureaucratic officials would not have been indifferent in the face of such severe punishment.

After Tong Yushan opened the rectification of the work of the propaganda department, various departments also followed suit, jumped out to analyze the causes of the mining accident in many aspects, and dig deep into the causes.

A spokesman for the State Coal Mine Safety Supervision Bureau accused that some local governments, influenced by local protectionism, have not taken a positive attitude towards the closure of small coal mines and have not implemented measures. In particular, due to the improvement of the coal market due to the reduction of production, the shortage of coal supply in some areas, and the recovery of coal prices, some small coal mines are driven by profits to secretly produce without authorization.

For example, in Shanxi, 80 percent of the county's fiscal revenue mainly depends on coal mining and coking, and in some counties, districts, and townships in Luliang and Datong, coal revenue accounts for more than 70 percent of the local government's fiscal revenue. A hundred years ago, Shanxi was the richest province in the country, and a hundred years later, it has become the province with the lowest per capita income in the country, and it is hard to imagine that it will be poorer than Qinghai and Tibet. Luliang Mountain is one of the 18 key poverty-stricken areas in the country, and it has jurisdiction over three cities and ten counties. All of the 10 counties are national or provincial poverty-stricken counties.

For an impoverished county with a fiscal revenue of only about 60 million yuan, shutting down small coal kilns means that it has almost nothing. After some coal mines were asked to suspend production, the person in charge of coal mine production in the county asked every day when production would resume.

The life of the migrant miners was not easy, although after the mining disaster, the family members who returned home with the ashes repeatedly advised the surviving miners to go home as soon as possible, but the miners still stayed in the mine. Because the government froze all the money from the mine owners, their wages were not paid. There was no money to go home, not even food. In order to save energy, they have two bowls of noodles a day, and most of the time they lie on the bare bed, wearing thick clothes and wrapping themselves in the quilt.

These people who have been working underground all year round have always suffered one by one, but they don't think that digging coal in a one-meter-high tunnel is the most painful thing, they say that it is ten times better here than in their hometown. They can get about 1,000 yuan a month in the small coal kiln, and the two of them dig more than one meter a day, about thirteen cars per meter, and one car can have 500 catties of coal, and the boss pays 50 yuan for each meter they dig.

The reporter asked the miners who had already experienced three gas explosions if they would go down the mine to dig coal again in the future, and the miners smiled and said, "If you still dig, what can we sufferers do without digging coal?" Not even to eat.

It is said that the mine owners are preparing to file a lawsuit in court, demanding that the government compensate for the economic losses caused by the shutdown.

A small coal kiln of 60,000 or 70,000 tons will have an investment of several million, and even if the production is stopped, the exhaust, electricity, and drainage cannot be stopped, otherwise even if it is scrapped, it will have to pay at least 20,000 or 30,000 yuan per month for maintenance.

Some people also said that so many small coal kilns were launched as a result of national policy support. Before the 80s, coal was very scarce, in order to alleviate the energy bottleneck, the state adopted a policy of fast flow of water, the state, collectives, and individuals went to the coal mine together, and the output increased significantly year by year.

For example, in Shanxi at that time, it started with Datong, and the Coal Department also organized a visit to see how the village got rich, and you can wash coal by setting up a pot yourself.

At that time, the country was short of coal, and what it wanted was coal. In the past 20 years, the country's GDP growth of more than a dozen points per year has made a huge contribution to the support of the coal industry.

However, in the mid-90s, the coal market was already oversupplied, coal prices fell, state-owned coal mines were generally in a predicament of losses and bankruptcy, and employees were seriously unemployed, and more problems were put on the table.

Although four certificates are required to open a coal mine, mine owners reduce or even abolish safety costs through bribery and make huge profits, and it costs about 70,000 to 80,000 yuan to get a mining license.

Compared with the cost of about 120 yuan per ton of coal in large state-owned mines, the cost of about 30 yuan in small coal kilns has a decisive advantage, which of course means that the possibility of devastating safety accidents is greatly increased.

Due to the bankruptcy of many state-owned coal mines, the original coal fields were leased, contracted, and subcontracted to individuals, and mining licenses were also issued at the same time.

On the one hand, in order to settle their children, they are also opening various mines and running small mines, and some large mines even buy coal from small mines and resell it. But on the other hand, after the small coal kiln is opened, the big coal mine cannot be opened.

In the summer of 1996, the Xishan Mining Bureau experienced the famous 8.4 flood.

Heavy rain fell that day, and a small coal kiln that had been mined out and abandoned to the Xishan mine was full of waste water and rainwater. According to the regulations, the Xishan mine was closed between its own tunnel and the small coal kiln.

As a result, the huge water pressure accumulated in the small coal kiln suddenly opened the closure, and the Xishan miners who were working underground suffered a catastrophe, 33 people were drowned and suffocated to death, and the Xishan Mining Bureau suffered a direct economic loss of 340 million.

In addition to water penetration accidents and gas accidents that occur at any time, what is more serious is the operation of small coal mines, which leads to chaos in the entire industry. It's not just a matter of price, it's actually stimulating everyone to come to predatory mining, and formal scientific and technological progress has become redundant, and the power of mechanization cannot be brought into play. Unlike large state-owned mines, which require at least 85 percent of the coal to be recovered, the extensive mining method of small coal kilns can only dig out 10 percent of the coal, and a lot of resources are wasted.

In Shanxi, due to excessive artillery opening, coal digging and coking, the former green mountains, clear waters and blue skies have disappeared. Dozens of miles away from many places where there are mines, you can see the thick smoke of the coking plant obscuring the clouds, and the drivers complain that the visibility on the road is only 10 meters on cloudy days.

The water level has dropped due to wanton mining, many reservoirs have dried up, the famous Nanlao Spring in the Jin Temple is now flowing with tap water, the Fen River has also broken off a few years ago, and there are bald mountains that have been split everywhere, and the flowing water that could be seen everywhere ten years ago is now gone.

In 1998, the state convened a conference on the closure of illegal and irrationally distributed coal mines, and began the action of shutting down small coal kilns that continues to this day. In order to appease the local government, the state delegated key large-scale mining bureaus such as Datong, Yangquan and Xishan to Shanxi Province. However, most local counties and townships have not increased their revenues, and the confrontation between the local and central governments in terms of power and interests is almost inevitable.

Therefore, some people expressed dissatisfaction, saying: "It is right to shut down small coal mines, and those that should be closed should be closed immediately, and those that are qualified should be opened immediately." Even if those small coal mines with four certificates need to be closed, since the state policy has made mistakes, the state should compensate. For 20 years, it has been such a policy, and those small coal kilns with complete four certificates have been approved by the provincial government. Since you were wrong before, you need to pay for the wrong policy, after all, this is not the time when executive orders decide everything. ”

Some mine owners put it more bluntly, "I can't care about my life or death, how can I care about other people's lives and deaths." ”

But at least so far, the government has not said anything about compensation or compensation.

This has formed a terrible evolution, more than 20 years ago, relying on administrative means to ensure the authority of coal mine safety leadership, and then the deliberate requirements and a large number of development of output, so that the safety rules and regulations retreated to the most secondary position, now even if the safety management agency formulates a complete system, it has not been respected and complied with from the bottom of the heart by the management objects, including the formulators, because the essence of this safety management is actually the law of man's rule.

"When laws and regulations are no longer respected, then it is inevitable that there will be **." Fan Wuxian was not without emotion about this.

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