A production safety accident occurred at Jilin Chemical Fiber Company. The situation at that time was that a high-voltage cable was short-circuited and a power outage occurred during the production process, causing the exhaust equipment in a workshop to stop operating. After the power was restored, workers inhaled toxic gases while resuming production, and 5 people were sent to the hospital.

Rescue efforts failed and 8 people died, with no life-threatening injuries.

1: The incident occurred at 21:30 on February 27, 2021. Jilin Chemical Fiber Company suddenly experienced a short-circuit and power outage in the high-voltage cable during the production process, causing the exhaust equipment in a production workshop to stop operating. The power supply was restored at 23:10 that day. Related positions

While preparing to resume production, workers inadvertently inhaled toxic gases and were subsequently sent to the hospital for treatment. The accident resulted in the death of 5 people who failed to be rescued, and 8 people whose lives were not in danger after treatment.

After the accident, relevant local departments rushed to the scene as soon as possible to carry out rescue command, accident investigation, environmental monitoring and personnel treatment.

2: To avoid accidents, both employees and enterprises need to be aware of production safety in daily production processes.

When employees are working, especially in workshops where toxic gases exist, if the exhaust equipment in the workshop stops operating due to power outage or malfunction, they should immediately report it to their superiors and have it inspected and evaluated by professionals.

Only after confirming that the working environment is within safety standards can employees enter the workshop to resume production.

For enterprises, they should not only focus on production efficiency, but also strictly implement the safety production responsibility system, conduct real-time monitoring of workshops with toxic gases, and ensure that the working environment of employees is within safe standards.

It is also necessary to conduct hazard analysis on the workplace regularly, constantly discover dangerous areas and make improvements in a timely manner, strengthen the cultivation of employees' awareness of production safety in daily management, and use actual cases to make employees clearly aware of the risks in their positions.

and handling methods to reduce unnecessary safety production accidents.

3: Accident handling When an employee death accident occurs in a factory or enterprise, a work-related injury death report should be immediately submitted to the local work-related injury insurance management agency, and an application should be made for work-related injury identification. The labor inspection, safety management, and public security supervision committee will intervene to confirm responsibility.

After confirmation, proceed with the transaction process.

According to relevant laws and regulations, the employer must pay work-related injury insurance premiums for its employees. Once an employee dies, the work-related injury insurance fund will pay a one-time fee; if the employer fails to pay work-related injury insurance premiums, the employer must negotiate with the family members of the deceased.

Compensation matters, and the employer shall pay for work-related injury expenses by itself, so the employer shall pay work-related injury insurance premiums for its employees. This is not only the legal obligation of the employer, but also the legal rights of the employees.