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Rescuers working at the collapsed gypsum mine in Pingyi County, east China’s Shandong Province. (Image: Screenshot from CCTV via YouTube )
Three miners were rescued alive Friday after being trapped underground for 36 days in China’s eastern Shandong province, state-run Xinhua news agency reports.
China’s CCTV showed dramatic footage of one of the men being lifted to safety in a capsule before being taken to hospital.
One more miner is expected to be saved later in the night, rescuers told Xinhua.
Credit: Screenshots from CCTV.
The aid team drilled two big holes into the tunnel to save the trapped workers.
Seventeen people were trapped after the gypsium mine caved in on Dec. 25, but only four of them were later found alive.
The collapse was so violent that it even registered at China’s earthquake monitoring centre.
Credit: Xinhua via Twitter.
Local media later reported that police had enacted “enforcement measures” against several bosses at Yurong company which owns the mine, while local party officials had been sacked.
The company chairman Ma Congbo, committed suicide. He drowned himself by jumping into a mine well several days after the incident, CBC reported.
Gypsum is a soft sulphate mineral used in construction and ornamental pieces.
2 Comments
Evans Lisomona
Why should the company chairman go to the extent of committing suicide.Mining is a high risk career and hence all the people involved in the day to day running of these mining companies must place investment in safety policy,safety equipment,safety training and standard operating procedures formulation and implementation as priority one(1) before production comes.Where a proper formulated ground control monitoring procedure is in place,it becomes clear on how to detect,monitor and control these fall/collapse of ground in mines and all mining operations,hence run withing the confines of the respective master procedure in force. In case of unavoidable occurrences, the procedure will thus be audited for it’s complaince according to the laid down operating guidelines.This therefore, becomes easy for the top management in explaining some of these accidents clearly.Thereby, preventing despondent decisions like what is reported from our company chairman from this chinese Gypsum mine.
patentbs
Sad to hear so many died but great news after 36 days! We can all learn.