Inner Mongolia Dongxing Chemical deflagration caused 4 deaths and more than 30 injuries! Seven groups of comics explain where the “red” line of chemical safety production is!

Wulanchabu city and Zhuozi county government launched the emergency plan, established the accident disposal and rescue on-site headquarters, and set up nine special groups to carry out the work, including on-site disposal, medical treatment, environmental monitoring and aftercare, so as to prevent secondary accidents

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These accidents exposed a wide range of systematic risk of hazardous chemicals safety, which is very prominent

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According to the company’s official website on the company’s production safety situation, since July 2012, there have been no major casualties

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Yidong group, formerly known as ZHUNGEERQI coal industry company, a state-owned enterprise, was founded in 1985 and is now a joint-stock private enterprise

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In August 2016, the official website of Ulanqab municipal government announced that Dongxing Chemical was given an administrative penalty of 20000 yuan, and Dongxing Chemical was ordered to investigate and punish the relevant responsible persons

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According to Xinhua news agency, at about 2:55 on April 24, a workshop of Inner Mongolia Yidong group Dongxing Chemical Co., Ltd

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At present, it is still burning, and the fire is gradually weakening, without obvious hidden danger

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The window glass was cracked

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After the project is completed and put into operation, it can achieve an annual sales revenue of 6 billion yuan, a profit of 800 million yuan, an annual tax payment of 700 million yuan for local finance, and the number of employees can reach 3200

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They must be on duty, stick to the principle and strictly implement the main responsibilities of enterprises

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privately transferred two vehicles with a total of 80 tons of waste mercuric chloride catalyst to Henan without notifying Zhuozi County Environmental Protection Bureau, 39 tons of which were illegally dumped in Henan and detained for 2 months

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According to the information on the official website of Ulanqab in that year, the total investment of the chlor alkali comprehensive utilization project of Dongxing Chemical Industry was 7.2 billion yuan, including 4.2 billion yuan in the first phase and 3 billion yuan in the second phase

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The open fire of the relevant device is released by decompression

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According to the official website of Ulanqab City, Zhuozi county’s subordinate Industrial Park, where Dongxing Chemical is located, was founded in 2010, with a planned area of 9.85 square kilometers, divided into East and west districts

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The injured have been properly treated and their condition is stable

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Among them, the chlor alkali chemical industry should focus on Mengwei Technology Co., Ltd

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According to the official website of Ulanqab municipal government, in 2010, Ulanqab municipal government, Zhuozi county government and Yidong Group signed a cooperation agreement on chlor alkali comprehensive utilization project in Hohhot, and Yidong group set up Dongxing Chemical Industry with the project as the core

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In 2016, there were 6 qualified enterprises in China

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A serious fire and poisoning occurred in Jinan Qilu pharmaceutical industry on April 15, killing 10 people

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Since the Xiangshui explosion in Jiangsu Province on March 21, a series of explosion accidents have occurred all over the country

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Huang Ming required that we should implement source control, comprehensive control and precise control

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As of 2016, there are 11 enterprises in the park, including 6 chemical enterprises, 3 natural gas liquefaction projects and 2 other enterprises

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The business scope of Dongxing Chemical now includes the production, processing and sales of PVC, EPVC, CPVC, cement and other general business projects, as well as the licensed business projects: calcium carbide (calcium carbide), trichloroethylene, 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorite (containing effective chlorine > 5%), 1,1-dichloroethane, sulfuric acid, tetrachloroethylene, sodium hydroxide (caustic soda)

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Dongxing Chemical is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Inner Mongolia Yidong Resources Group Co., Ltd

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With total assets of 39.2 billion yuan, Yidong group has 13 subsidiaries, covering coal, chemical, non-metal and real estate sectors

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The west district covers an area of 2.76 square kilometers and is dominated by natural gas industry

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In June 2016, Inner Mongolia Yidong group Dongxing Chemical Co., Ltd

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The emergency management and ecological environment departments of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region sent a working group to guide the risk disposal and environmental monitoring

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If they fail to meet the requirements of the standards, they must stop production when they need to stop production and reduce production when they need to reduce production

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In the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) by calcium carbide method, mercuric chloride catalyst is the catalyst for the synthesis of vinyl chloride (VCM) from acetylene and hydrogen chloride

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On April 24, the emergency management department held a video conference to analyze and solve the current safety production problems of hazardous chemicals

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Mercury catalyst is listed in the national list of hazardous wastes (category: hw29 mercury containing waste, waste Code: 900-022-29, hazard characteristic: T) because it contains high concentration of HgCl2 and is toxic

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On April 23, an oil tank truck exploded in the parking lot of Yulin chemical industry park in Shaanxi Province

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The eastern district covers an area of 7.08 square kilometers, mainly chemical industry

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It is fully recognized that the current safety problem of hazardous chemicals has formed a strong contrast with the requirements of the new era and the people’s expectation of improving their sense of acquisition, happiness and security, and has become a prominent contradiction that restricts the stable improvement of the national safety production situation and affects the realization of the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way

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They must carry out safety legal education one by one for the owners and management teams of hazardous chemicals enterprises

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Huang Ming demanded that we should further improve our political standing

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At the meeting, Huang Ming, Secretary of the Party group of the emergency management department, pointed out that the current situation of safety production of hazardous chemicals is grim and urgent, and the all-round systematic risk is very prominent, which seriously threatens the safety of people’s lives and property, and seriously restricts economic development and social stability

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Up to now, the accident has caused 4 deaths, 3 serious injuries, 2 minor injuries and 30 minor injuries to the operators on site

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Video: a chemical enterprise in Inner Mongolia had a deflagration in the early morning, causing three deaths and five injuries

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The construction scale of the project was 400000 tons of PVC (including 100000 tons of paste resin), 320000 tons of caustic soda, 600000 tons of calcium carbide and 1 million tons of cement, which was the largest industrial project in Zhuozi county at that time

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According to the national hazardous waste list, waste mercuric chloride catalyst belongs to hazardous waste and needs to be treated by qualified specialized chemical enterprises

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Under the guidance of the expert group, the spherical tank valve beside the deflagration point has been closed and the tank is in a stable isolation state

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(hereinafter referred to as “Yidong group”), which is registered in Zhuozi County, Ulanqab city

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It is necessary to take decisive measures to resolutely curb the explosion of dangerous chemicals, and strive to solve the basic, source and bottleneck problems

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Waste mercury containing catalyst produced in the production of PVC by calcium carbide method

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Dongxing Chemical is a key industrial project in Zhuozi County, and a key industrial upgrading project in Ulanqab city

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Decisive and effective measures must be taken

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Closely rely on the Party committee, government and all aspects of society to implement classified management and control of hazardous chemical enterprises according to red, orange, yellow and blue.

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The ecological and environmental departments concerned about the quality of the surrounding environment, organized and carried out environmental monitoring in time, and the monitoring indicators of air and water environment were relatively stable

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It is understood that these hazardous wastes should have been transported to Tongxin mercury Industry Co., Ltd

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It is understood that Dongxing Chemical was punished for illegal transfer and dumping of hazardous wastes three years ago

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In this chlor alkali comprehensive utilization project, PVC is produced by calcium carbide method, ion-exchange membrane caustic soda process is adopted, and paste resin and trichloroethylene plant are equipped

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In the early hours of April 24, an explosion and fire broke out in a chemical plant in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, killing four people and seriously injuring three

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and Dongxing Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., further extend the industrial chain, increase the research and development of PVA, PVC and other downstream products, form the limestone calcium carbide PVC high-end chlorine containing products slag cement circulation industrial chain, and build an important domestic high-end chlor alkali chemical product production base

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(hereinafter referred to as “Dongxing Chemical”) located in Zhuozi County, Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia exploded

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of Tongren City, Guizhou Province for treatment

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The most urgent task is to organize experts to “sift” the enterprises again

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People around the plant have been evacuated safely

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In the national economic and social development plan report of Ulanqab in 2018, it is mentioned that Ulanqab will vigorously promote high-end chemical industry

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