Jiangsu Sopo Group major fire in 2003
July 12, 2003, 10:35, located in Zhenjiang City, Chemical Industry Development Zone, Jiangsu Sopo Group bleaching agent warehouse fire, resulting in a direct economic loss of 683,600 yuan, the area of the fire 1040 square meters.
Basic information of the fire unit
Jiangsu Sopo Group is located in Zhenjiang City Chemical Industry Development Zone, with more than 2,900 employees, and more than 20 kinds of chemical products such as AC blowing agent, bleaching powder, caustic soda and acetic acid. Bleaching agent warehouse is located in the west side of bleaching agent workshop of Sopo Joint Stock Company, which was built in May, 2000, with a building area of 1040 square meters and a total stock of 380 tons of bleaching agent (calcium hypochlorite). The east side of the warehouse is separated from the bleaching concentrate truck by a 6-meter wide cement road, the south side is open space, the north side is the main road of the factory, and the west side is open space. The warehouse is managed by the property management office of Sopo Group, and the custodian on that day was Chen Jianwei (female, 36 years old), who was responsible for the entry and issuance of bleaching powder essence. At about 9:00 a.m. on that day, the vehicle number of Suzhou Zhangjiagang Gangtong Transportation Company was loading containers of bleaching powder essence with the number of SU E-F4924.
Fire fighting
At 10:35 on July 12, a fire broke out in Sopo Group's bleaching agent warehouse. Zhenjiang City Fire Command Center received the alarm at 10:37 immediately after the Jianbi squadron 4 fire engines, 14 officers and men, special squadron 3 fire engines, 15 officers and men rushed to the scene to fight the fire, Sopo Group full-time fire department of 12 members of the fire 2 fire engines also took part in the fire fighting. After receiving the report, Zhenjiang City Fire Brigade Deputy Chief Shen Weiliang immediately led the duty officer rushed to the scene to organize and command. After the officers and men's efforts to fight, the fire was brought under control at 11:20 pm, was extinguished at 11:56 pm, to save the neighboring bleaching powder production workshop worth 30 million yuan. Leaders of Zhenjiang Safety Supervision Bureau and Jingkou Public Security Bureau came to the scene to assist in the investigation of the cause of the fire and the loss. Zhenjiang City Public Security Bureau deputy director Sui Ming, Ma Yugean and other leaders have also called to inquire about the fire.
Fire damage and casualties
The bleaching agent storehouse had a fire area of 1,040 square meters, and the fire caused partial burn damage to the container trucks, burned 156 tons of bleaching agent, with a direct economic loss of 683,600 yuan. There were no casualties.
Investigation of the cause of the fire
After the fire, the Zhenjiang Fire Brigade immediately joined the Municipal Bureau of Safety Supervision and the Jingkou Public Security Bureau to form a fire accident investigation team to investigate the cause of the fire and the loss. The car driver, warehouse custodian, loading and unloading workers were questioned, investigated the fire scene, the morning of July 13, the fire investigation team also specially invited three chemical experts to hold a fire cause analysis meeting. After hearing the news, Minister Ji Junxian of the Fire Prevention Department of the General Brigade quickly rushed to the scene to guide the investigation of the fire and the aftermath of the work.
Determination of the site of the fire
After the investigation, the fire was bleaching powder warehouse and parked on the road to the east of the container truck being loaded. Bleaching agent warehouse and the finished products of bleaching agent in the warehouse were all burned, the front of the container truck by the warehouse side and the front of a container was burned, the back of a container only smoke traces. The 391 barrels of bleaching powder that had been loaded in the front container were all burned, and the witnesses at the scene were questioned. It can be concluded that the part of the fire in the front of a container.
Determination of the point of origin
The upper part of the container in front of the heavy smoke traces, the lower part of less. The middle part of the rear compartment is heavy, the upper part of the metal oxide rust layer has been produced, reddish-brown. Determine the point of origin of the fire for the container in the middle of the rear compartment part.
The cause of the fire
Through on-site investigation, questioned the personnel, identified the cause of the fire for the loading and unloading workers in another warehouse after loading urea, from the bleaching agent storehouse to the container on the shipment of bleaching agent, the body stained with urea sprinkled in the container, with the handling of bleaching agent sprinkled in the container in the chemical reaction, causing a fire. After investigation, the chemical name of the bleaching powder calcium hypochlorite, water, fire, organic matter will burn and explode. The meteorological situation of the day is cloudy to cloudy, the temperature 24-31 ℃; workers after work must first change the work clothes, the presence of personnel are no fire, no one smoked at that time, thus ruling out the bleaching powder in the event of water, fire, combustion and explosion may occur. 9:00 a.m. on July 12, the 14 loading and unloading workers began to load bleaching powder into the container car, due to the weather is hot, the time has been delayed in order to catch up in the morning in the front of a container full of the new area of labor! Service Company Dingmao branch site responsible person Guo Junfeng will be shipping urea eight loaders called to load bleaching powder together, when loaded 391 barrels found in the middle of the container white smoke, when the workers jumped from the car, the container will be sprayed out of the open fire, and then ignited the bleaching powder warehouse. The original regulations stipulated that the loaders and unloaders loading and unloading urea were not allowed to load and unload bleaching powder, because the original workers loading and unloading urea had already left, and it was temporarily stipulated that the workers loading and unloading urea should change their clothes, wash their hands, and wipe the soles of their shoes before loading and unloading bleaching powder. On that day, after loading and unloading urea, the loaders did not take any measures according to the regulations and directly loaded and unloaded bleaching powder. Upon investigation, there was bleaching agent on the bleaching agent barrels in the bleaching agent warehouse, and there was a lot of urea on the floor of the urea warehouse. The simulation test in the urea sprinkled a small amount of bleaching powder on the fire within a few seconds.
Responsibility for the fire accident
New District Labor Service Company Dingmao branch loading and unloading workers did not implement the system triggered the fire is directly responsible; new district labor service company Dingmao branch site responsible person Guo Junfeng on the loading and unloading workers to supervise the lack of responsibility for the indirect responsibility; new district labor service company Dingmao branch responsible person Yan Xiaohua on the education of the staff is not enough to be directly responsible for the leadership. Jiangsu Sopo Group warehouse custodian Chen Jianwei on-site supervision of ineffective negative indirect responsibility; Jiangsu Sopo Group Joint Stock Company, the head of the Environmental Safety Section Liu Hongling checking ineffective negative indirect responsibility; Jiangsu Sopo Group of hazardous materials mismanagement of the leadership responsibility.
Lessons learned from the fire accident
The fire started only in the car container, then because the workshop will bleaching powder concentrate stacked under the eaves of the warehouse, and the joint-stock company's environmental safety section failed to find out during the inspection, resulting in the rapid spread of fire to the bleaching powder concentrate warehouse, resulting in the destruction of the warehouse, with losses amounting to 683.6 thousand yuan; on the same day, the loading and unloading of urea, not in accordance with the provisions of the measures taken, directly loading and unloading of bleaching powder concentrate, the loading and unloading of urea. After loading and unloading urea, the loaders did not take any measures according to the regulations and directly loaded and unloaded bleaching powder, and the custodian of the group's warehouse failed to find out when he supervised the scene, which led to the urea stained on the loaders' bodies to be scattered in the containers, and the chemical reaction of the bleaching powder spread in the containers during the handling, causing the fire. In this regard, Jiangsu Sopo Group to strengthen the publicity and education of the workers, increase the site supervision, so that the system can be truly implemented; the whole plant to carry out a safety inspection, strengthen each link, the hidden danger will be nipped in the bud.