In the Bayi garbage transfer station in Kaiping City, Jiangmen, Guangdong, a garbage truck collided with a female cleaner in the process of reversing, causing the cleaner to fall from the No. 4 unloading port on the second floor into the No. 4 compression box on the first floor, and the emergency team continued to repeatedly check the suspicious area and garbage, a total of about 7,000 tons of garbage, but still not found, the accident caused a direct economic loss of about 2.2 million yuan. On June 26, the Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau of Kaiping City, Jiangmen issued the "Investigation Report on the Missing Contact Accident of the Cleaner of the Kaiping "4.30" Bayi Garbage Transfer Station, announcing the details of the accident.
At 11:30 a.m. on April 30, 2024, according to an employee of Kaiping Bangchen Environmental Governance Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Bangchen Company"), the cleaner Zhang could not be contacted, and the station manager of Bangchen Company immediately organized personnel to search for the Bayi garbage transfer station and its surroundings, but the cleaner was not found.
Bangchen Company began to search through the company's monitoring at 12 o'clock, and found at 13:30 that at 8:33 a.m. on April 30, when the cleaner dumped garbage on the No. 4 unloading port platform on the second floor of the Bayi garbage transfer station, the garbage transport vehicle (Sichuan ABS3**) of Kaiping Branch of Guangdong Baohong Environmental Management Co., Ltd. was about to unload at the unloading port of No. 4 machine, and the rear of the car collided with the cleaner, causing the cleaner to fall from the No. 4 unloading port on the second floor into the No. 4 compression box of the No. 4 machine on the first floor.
After checking the monitoring, the station administrator of Bangchen Company reported the situation to the company leaders, and reported the situation to 110 at 13:44, and immediately contacted Hanlan Kaiping Solid Waste Treatment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hanlan Company") to find the missing person. At 14 o'clock, the Kaiping City Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, the Kaiping Municipal Public Security Bureau (Qiaoyuan Road Police Station, Criminal Investigation Brigade) arrived at the scene of Bangchen Company, and checked the monitoring of Bangchen Company, and found that during the period from 8:33 to 9:00, the Bangchen garbage transport vehicle (Guangdong JR00**), which was responsible for transporting the No. 4 compression box on the first floor of the Bayi garbage transfer station, had opened the Bayi garbage transfer station at 9:03 and transported the No. 4 compression box to the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center for dumping.
After checking the monitoring of Hanlan Company, it was found that the garbage in the No. 4 compression box of the No. 4 machine had been dumped into the No. 4 discharge port of the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center at 10:01, and more than 10,000 tons of domestic garbage had been piled up in the domestic waste storage bin of the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center at that time. According to the verification of Hanlan Company, on April 30, the garbage transport vehicle of Bangchen Company (Guangdong JR00**) entered the weighbridge of the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center at 9:43, left the weighbridge of the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center at 9:58, and entered the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center from 9:58 to 13:30 A total of 59 vehicles of domestic waste were dumped, and a total of 465.99 tons of domestic waste were dumped.
At 13:50 on April 30, the Kaiping City Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau and the Kaiping Environmental Sanitation Management Office received the report that there were cleaning workers lost contact from Bangchen Company, and immediately notified the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center to stop the garbage entering the factory, and the original stacking area was suspended from stacking garbage, and required the relevant cities, towns, and garbage removal companies to suspend the dumping of garbage to the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center, and quickly set up an emergency team, together with the Municipal Emergency Management Bureau, to organize staff, solid waste center technicians, experts, About 30 people from Bangchen Company went to the domestic garbage storage warehouse of the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Center to look for the missing people. At the same time, arrange personnel to be stationed at the Bayi garbage transfer station and the municipal solid waste treatment center, and do a good job in the on-site explanation of the suspension of domestic garbage and the logistics support and stable control of the work. The emergency team organizes a facility inspection team to conduct safety production inspections on the city's sanitation facilities.
Since the afternoon of April 30, the emergency team and the staff of Bangchen Company have been stationed in two shifts in the domestic garbage storage silo of Hanlan Company for 24 hours to search for the missing people. On May 1, the emergency staff and the station manager of Bangchen Company searched and investigated the transport vehicles, compression equipment and indoor and outdoor spaces in the Bayi transfer station again, but still did not find the missing people. On May 2, the emergency team further optimized the search plan, and used a hook locomotive to hook the suspicious domestic garbage out of the unloading platform from the No. 1 unloading port in the unloading hall of the municipal solid waste treatment center, and carefully searched by manual overturning. Since the search on April 30, as of May 13, the emergency response team has continuously and repeatedly searched the suspicious areas and garbage, and a total of about 7,000 tons of garbage have been searched, but the missing person has not been found.
The investigation report determined that the direct cause of the accident was that Zhang, a cleaner of Kaiping Bangchen Environmental Management Co., Ltd., had a weak sense of safety and insufficient understanding of the risk factors of the unloading operation environment, and dumped garbage at the No. 4 unloading port on the second floor of the Bayi Transfer Station without implementing safety measures such as wearing safety belts and checking and confirming the surrounding environment of the operation. At the same time, Huang, the driver of Kaiping Branch of Guangdong Baohong Environmental Management Co., Ltd., drove the Sichuan ABS3** garbage truck to unload the material at the No. 4 unloading port on the second floor. In the process of reversing, Huang did not see Zhang in front of the No. 4 unloading port on the second floor, and Zhang did not pay attention to avoid the vehicle that was reversing. The rear of the vehicle collided with Zhang, causing Zhang to fall from the No. 4 unloading port on the second floor into the compression box of the No. 4 machine on the first floor, which was the direct cause of the accident.
The indirect causes of the accident include the failure to implement the main responsibility of safety production of Kaiping Bangchen Environmental Management Co., Ltd., the failure of the main person in charge of Kaiping Bangchen Environmental Governance Co., Ltd. to perform their duties, the failure of the safety management personnel (stationmaster) of Kaiping Bangchen Environmental Management Co., Ltd. to perform their duties, and the failure of Kaiping Branch of Guangdong Baohong Environmental Management Co., Ltd. to perform their duties of safety production management.
The investigation report revealed that after the accident, Kaiping City reported the relevant circumstances of the accident in a timely manner. The Kaiping Municipal Urban Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, the Kaiping Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Kaiping Municipal Environmental Sanitation Management Office, the Tangkou Town People's Government, and the Cangcheng Town People's Government quickly organized and carried out the work of comforting and dealing with the aftermath of the missing persons' families. At present, the Kaiping City Management and Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau has reached mediation with the families of the missing persons on the search and assisted the families in completing the matter. The unit involved has completed the negotiation of compensation with the families of the missing persons.
In terms of accident responsibility handling, Huang, the driver of the Sichuan ABS3** garbage truck of Kaiping Branch of Guangdong Baohong Environmental Management Co., Ltd., failed to find the personnel who entered the No. 4 unloading port area in time during the unloading and reversing process on the second floor of the Bayi transfer station; When unloading, do not get out of the car to operate, and are directly responsible for the accident. Suspected of the crime of major liability accidents, it is recommended that the Kaiping Municipal Public Security Bureau handle it in accordance with the law.
In addition, the investigation report recommends that Kaiping Bangchen Environmental Governance Co., Ltd., Kaiping Branch of Guangdong Baohong Environmental Management Co., Ltd., and Zhong, the main person in charge of Kaiping Bangchen Environmental Governance Co., Ltd., and Situ, the safety management personnel (stationmaster) of Kaiping Bangchen Environmental Governance Co., Ltd., be punished in accordance with the law.
Source | Southern Metropolis Daily, N Video Report
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