Do not lose the pain of major casualties

On November 16, a fire broke out in a carrot packing workshop at Longyuan Food Co., Ltd., Shouguang City, Shandong Province. As of 9:00 am on the 17th, Shouguang Longyuan Food Co., Ltd. basically cleared the fire scene, confirmed 18 deaths, injured 13 people, including 1 very seriously injured, 1 serious, other minor injuries, the current wounded are in the After treatment, the condition was stable. Cause of the accident is under further investigation. (November 17 "Legal Evening News")

The fire that took place in a carrot packaging workshop together made people appear less calm. However, in light of the social concern of the entire incident, it clearly does not match so many casualties.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation. However, from the limited information that has been disclosed, many problems have been discovered. First, according to employees who successfully escaped, sparks were emitted from the freezer. This is not the first time that a fire accident has occurred. From a large number of cases, in addition to the summer high temperature period, which is generally regarded as an accident-prone period, the increase in the number of fires and electricity used in production and living in winter is also a high incidence of fire accidents, but often due to certain prejudices. And relax your vigilance.

Secondly, because they do not understand knowledge of escape, 13 injured people are inhaled respiratory injury. The insufficiency of escape knowledge is almost a common cause of all casualties that ultimately caused major casualties. For an agricultural product processing plant, whether such low-level factories organize safety drills for employees and popularize knowledge of escape, whether relevant parties have provided effective supervision and inspection is even more questionable.

In addition, one detail that should not be overlooked is that the company’s resident Qu Ling Village is known as China’s first town of carrots. Similar cooperative enterprises mainly engaged in the production and processing of agricultural products should be in the local area. So, are other companies' safety production supervision in place? It stands to reason that as a town with a reputation as the first town of Chinese carrots, the supporting facilities and the management level of safety production should be more standardized than most small town enterprises. The occurrence of this incident may have exposed the general lack of safety production standards of small cities and towns enterprises at the moment, and it will give rise to targeted attention.

Regardless of the number of casualties caused by the accident, or the accidents that may reveal the universality and standardization of production safety in small towns, their significance is not limited. According to the standard of accidents caused by casualties or direct economic losses caused by production safety accidents, this incident has been considered a major safety incident. In addition to business owners, the relevant administrative departments must have irresponsible responsibility. In any case, once accidents cause casualties, they have aroused public concern and public discussion. This is also an important measure of the human-centered index. Moreover, due to the frequent occurrence of security incidents, the pain and due reflection on such incidents will be lost.

Of course, one of the important conditions for preventing the loss of social pain is the strict investigation and accountability of the public sector for incidents, as well as strong follow-up reflection and safety construction.