Alas!

When Xia Lao heard it, he sighed and got up directly to the office.

Yang Xiaotao and others followed.

And all the hearts were troubled.

At the beginning of the implementation of the new technology, some people doubted the safety of oxygen blowing.

In particular, factories that did not agree with it before are not optimistic about this technology.

Later, Hongxing Iron and Steel Plant successfully experimented and used facts to explain the benefits of oxygen top blowing converter, which made the opposition fall.

But now, if an explosion proves that there are potential safety hazards in the oxygen top blowing converter, then the converter steelmaking that has just emerged will sink if it is not good.

Thinking of this, Yang Xiaotao felt panicked in his heart.

In the office, Xia Lao stepped forward to pick up the phone.

"Lao Huang! I, Lao Xia. Yes, I'm here in the machine shop, and I'm talking about it. ”

"He's there, too."

"Okay, understood! Let's go right away!"

Xia Lao hung up the phone, looked at the people behind him, and finally looked at Yang Xiaotao, "The fire in the steel mill has been extinguished, and the on-site personnel are cleaning up the scene." The above called for the formation of an accident investigation task force. ”

"You find comrades from two steel mills to join, go and call someone now, and set off immediately."

Yang Xiaotao nodded immediately after hearing this, he also wanted to see what caused the explosion!

Pick it up and start dialing.

Liu Huaimin, who was watching with Xia Lao, "Comrade Huaimin, sort out the safety management manual of your factory and hand it over to Director Liu." “

"Chief, are all the factories?"

"Yes, including machinery factories, chemical plants, and steel plants, all of them!"

Xia Lao said to Director Liu again, "Sort it out as soon as possible and send it to the factories below." ”

"Yes, understood."

"Comrade Yang Youning!"

"Chief."

"This incident is therefore a wake-up call for us, the safety of the people's property and the country's property must be taken seriously, and you must take advantage of this incident to make the string in the hearts of all workers collapse!"

"No one should take safety lightly!"

"Yes!"

At the time arranged by Xia Lao, Yang Xiaotao had already hung up the phone, "Chief, there are three people in the steel plant, two technicians, and one master, waiting to go!"

Yang Xiaotao didn't explain on the phone, but just asked An Zhongsheng and Li Junming to put down their work and wait for the car to press them.

"Okay, you arrange for someone to pick them up, and we'll go over first."

"Yes!"

Yang Xiaotao and Liu Huaimin nodded and walked up quickly.

Stone Hill Iron and Steel Works.

The flames were extinguished, and the ground was filled with flowing water, cooled iron slips, slag and black pieces of iron scattered everywhere.

Not far away, a boiler with a third of it removed fell to the ground.

Dozens of meters next to it, there were rubble tiles scattered all over the ground.

There, once a house.

There are scorched black on the surrounding steel frames, and there are depressions and twists and turns in many places, and it seems that they have been damaged a lot.

Outside, the firefighters were tiredly rolling the water pipes, the ground was wet, the cold wind was blowing, and the water-soaked places on their bodies were cold for a while.

The entire scene was full of grief.

It snowed a few days ago, and under this outbreak of heat, it also turned into snow water, making the ground even more muddy.

A group of workers sat on the ground, leaning against each other, unable to move despite the muddy water.

In the crisis just now, they risked their lives to save the machine, but fortunately, no one was in danger of their lives, but burns abounded.

Even so, it was still looking at the explosion of the workshop, with grief and indignation on his face.

There are even more people, tears glistening in their eyes.

The nurses around were running around with mud, sometimes hearing yelling to get something, and sometimes going to help with the operation.

Some people bandaged everyone upstairs with sadness on their faces.

They saw the disaster with their own eyes, and they also saw their accomplices struggling after being swallowed in flames.

There are more people who are close, and the incessant wailing makes their hearts like knives.

A figure knelt in the muddy water, its eyes blank, like rotten wood.

"How so, how so!"

The middle-aged man pinched the dirt under his feet, his face full of pain.

He kept muttering, as if he couldn't believe what was in front of him.

In an instant, he went from the world to hell, from the glory that he was about to embrace, to the embarrassment he was now, and the unspeakable pain.

"Factory Director!"

Behind him, his face was dark, and his clothes were still torn with a few holes, and there were scorched marks all around.

There were a few workers beside him, all of them in general appearance!

Seeing the middle-aged factory director like this, the visitor could only step forward and pull him up.

The middle-aged man still murmured, as if in a nightmare, wanting to wake up.

I didn't come back to my senses until I was pulled up!

"Factory Director!"

"The leader of the working group is coming"

When the middle-aged man heard this, his body was shocked.

"Okay, I got it."

Finally, the middle-aged factory director spoke, which made the people feel relieved.

"This time, I will not shy away from the responsibility that I bear, you will tell the truth when the time comes, and you must not hide it."

"Factory Director!"

Several people hurriedly spoke, and the leader said, "Factory director, we are just cooperating with the work, and we are all those people from the Metallurgical Bureau..."

"Lao Ding, don't say it!"

The middle-aged factory director stretched out his hand to stop, and looked at the few people on the other side who were being watched by the factory security department, their faces were also pale!

"I'm in charge of this."

The middle-aged factory director seemed to have strength and walked quickly to the door.

Alas!

There was a sigh behind him.

At the door, Yang Xiaotao followed behind Xia Lao after getting out of the car.

On the way, he learned that Xia Lao was the deputy leader of the investigation team, and the team leader was directly appointed, and he was higher than Huang Laodu.

Now, the two are waiting at the door.

Just looking inside through the gate, from time to time someone would pass by and rush towards the hospital.

A moment later, An Zhongsheng came over with Li Junming and a master named Sun Youtian.

An Zhongsheng's face turned pale, and he also realized something, so he asked Yang Xiaotao what the situation was as soon as he came.

Yang Xiaotao said simply, and the three of them were silent when they heard the words.

"I'll be there for a while, I'll have to find out."

An Zhongsheng and the three nodded vigorously.

This is not only a task, but also a question of the future safety of their steel plant.

After waiting for a while, another deputy team leader also came.

The difference is that he brought many soldiers with him, and as soon as he arrived, he would take over the work of the steel mill.

Xia Lao stepped forward, and Yang Xiaotao hurriedly followed.

"Lao Zhang, I didn't expect you to come."

Zhang Lao was dressed in an emerald green military uniform, and when he saw that there was no extra color on Xia Lao's face, he just nodded, "This time the top attaches great importance to it, so I have to come." ”

"Hmm!"

After saying that, the two of them continued to wait.

A moment later, several cars came in the distance.

When a car stopped, a thin old man came out of it, with small eyes, not a small nose, and a pair of big ears, looking a little serious.

There were quite a few people behind him, apparently all of whom were investigators of the accident.

Yang Xiaotao took a look at it and recognized this person.

After all, I took a lot of photos on the city gate tower last time, and asked Liu Huaimin to go to several photos, of course, the price was to introduce him to the names of the characters.

This chief, surnamed Chen, is one of the few people in China who has a far-sighted vision for economic construction.

"Chief."

"Leader!"

Xia Lao and Zhang Lao immediately stepped forward, and the old man nodded.

"All of them?"

"It's all there."

"Go in and have a look."

The old man took the lead in walking inside, and Yang Xiaotao followed behind Xia Lao.

Walking into the scene, you can feel the smell of burnt paste in the air.

Anyone who has been on the battlefield knows where the smell comes from.

"Chief! Leadership! ”

When a person came from the opposite side, he saw that he was wet all over his body, and his hair was even more charred and curled together.

"I, I"

The person who came wanted to say something, but couldn't say anything, and suddenly, a seven-foot man squatted on the ground and cried.

When the workers who followed behind saw this, they were also sad, and many people's eyes turned red.

Chen Lao didn't help, but looked at the 'workers' lined up on the side, covered with white cloths, which still left the remains, and some people approached, not even a little ash.

Not far away, the workers who were resting, seeing this scene, stood up one after another, and they supported each other and slowly gathered over.

"Chief, don't care about Director Wang's business."

"That's right, leader, Director Wang is at the forefront, he"

"It's because the boiler modification is not in place, it's the oxygen explosion, and I don't blame Director Wang."

Everyone pleaded for Director Wang, but it made the crying man even more uncomfortable.

"Get up, weep and weep, and forget your duty?"

Chen Lao scolded, and Director Wang hurriedly got up, but his face was still painful.

"Let's all go and rest."

Chen Lao waved his hand, and everyone left one after another when they saw this.

When the crowd dispersed, the investigation team went to the scene of the explosion.

Zhang Lao asked people to isolate the surroundings, and Xia Lao glanced at Yang Xiaotao.

Immediately, Yang Xiaotao and An Zhongsheng, who couldn't wait, entered the explosion area and began to check.

As for Chen Lao, this is to arrange for people to interrogate people from the iron and steel plant and the metallurgical bureau.

"Angong, look here."

Master Sun Youtian pointed to the boiler that exploded and said, "Look at this thickness, the thickness of the fireproof bricks used here is one-third less than required." ”

An Zhongsheng glanced at it, then touched the fireproof brick that was still warm with his hand, and tore a few pieces from the side, which is really the case.

At this time, others also noticed that something was wrong with this place, and soon listed this place as one of the suspicious points.

Yang Xiaotao went to the oxygen storage room with Ding Junming to check the situation.

"Mr. Yang, look at this pipe."

"It's all blown up like this, it's obviously wrong."

Yang Xiaotao took it and looked at it, between this and the transportation pipe made of steel, the thickness reached half an inch, not to mention the sturdiness, but it would definitely be able to prevent the erosion of ordinary flames.

Being blown up like this is by no means an ordinary explosion.

Yang Xiaotao knows that pure oxygen is not a flammable gas, its role is to support combustion.

Therefore, when pure oxygen encounters an open flame, it will only prolong the burning time of the open flame and will not be ignited by the open flame.

However, when the combustible material is combustion, there is no guarantee that an incendiary explosion will occur.

"Ask about the design here."

"Yes."

A moment later, the steel mill technician who had been instructed to arrive, Yang Xiaotao handed the pipe forward and asked him to introduce what the oxygen storage room looked like before it was bombed.

The people who came knew the seriousness of the matter and did not hide it.

After the experiment began, the staff connected a power pump to the pipeline, and then pointed the pure oxygen tank at the nozzle and turned on the switch.

Yang Xiaotao glanced at An Zhongsheng who came over, and they all saw the worry in their eyes.

This method looks similar to that of the Red Star Iron and Steel Plant, but in fact, the difference is quite large.

Here it is pure oxygen, which is gas.

When the power pump is driving liquid oxygen, it uses air.

In other words, what enters the furnace is not pure oxygen, but a certain amount of air mixed with it.

At the high temperature of the converter, it is easy to cause an explosion.

The two made a note of the situation and continued their investigation.

Everyone continued to inspect the situation at the scene, and no one found doubts, and then classified them and wrote them down, waiting for inquiries.

At four o'clock in the evening, the sky had already darkened, and the sky was once again covered with a dark cloud.

The crowd was almost done, and then they came to the temporary headquarters of the investigation team.

Everyone took a steamed bun with two noodles, ate this pickle, and immediately had a meeting.

At the meeting, the staff around Mr. Chen explained the situation from the workers' mouths.

It's basically the same as Yang Xiaotao, who knows about it.

However, there is a difference in the fact that they did not test the modified converter in advance before this experiment.

Director Wang of the iron and steel plant mentioned this to the Metallurgical Bureau, but the people from the Metallurgical Bureau did not agree.

Later, during the experiment, when the boiler was blowing oxygen, there was a popping sound inside, and then the slag at the bottom of the furnace somehow exploded, and then the top of the boiler began to burn, and it became more and more powerful.

Eventually, the explosion occurred.

When the staff finished talking about the situation, there was silence all around.

Xia Lao and Zhang Lao glanced at each other, but they didn't know how to speak.