The national occupational disease report released by the National Health and Family Planning Commission in February, 201015 showed that 26,873 cases of occupational diseases were reported in 201014, accounting for 89.66% of the total occupational disease reports in 201014. From the perspective of industry distribution, the number of occupational disease cases in coal mining and metallurgical industry, non-ferrous metal mining and metallurgical industry and mining auxiliary industry is relatively large, with 1 1396 cases, 4,408 cases and 2,935 cases respectively, accounting for 62.52% of the reported occupational disease cases in China.
1 and in the late 1990s, due to the low efficiency of wet chisel, dry chisel was mostly used. Every time the drill bit sinks, dust will fall on the drill bit. But at that time, the concept of occupational disease prevention and control had not been popularized. In addition, wearing a mask can lead to breathing difficulties, and workers do not take protective measures at all. However, because of this little negligence, pneumoconiosis accompanied them all their lives. There are countless pneumoconiosis patients. He Quangui, who lives in Xunyang, Shaanxi, is one of them. He has a little black book, which records the pneumoconiosis patients he met in the village and their time of death. So far, more than 60 names and dates have been recorded on it.
2. 1 1 years ago, He Quangui, who lived in Xunyang, Shaanxi Province, was a strong man of 130 kg, healthy and full of vitality. Starting from 1997, he worked as a miner in a small gold mine in the Qinling Mountains, and was called "the cheapest gold in China" for seven years. Until 2004, he suddenly found himself often feeling short of breath and out of breath. The examination results showed that he suffered from pneumoconiosis stage II with swollen alveoli. It was not until he got sick that he really knew the devil's terrible: shortness of breath, often panting because of shoulder pain; If you don't sleep well, you will rarely feel sleepy. Lie down and put the pillow up, or a sudden cough will choke you to death; Afraid of cold, afraid of heat, afraid of cold. A cold may cause many complications, such as emphysema and bullae. If you can't stand it, you want to commit suicide, get an electric shock, drink pesticides, and jump off a building if you want to walk.
3. The saddest thing is more than that. Workers who dig in small mines often jump from one mine to another without signing a labor contract. Even if NGOs want to provide legal aid, they will not solve it because they can't produce evidence. In the depressed mining environment, enterprises have laid off employees on a large scale, and those employees with pneumoconiosis bear the brunt. He paid a lifetime's health for the mining industry, but he became an abandoned child of unscrupulous enterprises and could not get due compensation. In the long process of waiting for arbitration and litigation, the lives of pneumoconiosis workers died bit by bit.
4. Noise is the most easily overlooked and neglected risk factor. Many enterprises don't pay attention to this, which eventually causes irreparable harm to the health of employees. According to the statistics of Fuxin mining area 1974- 1983, 9 out of 88 fatal accidents were caused by noise. On-site noise test was carried out in a gold mine enterprise. The test results are as follows: Although the noise intensity of the working environment of more than half of the posts still meets the national standard, the post noise related to mining and its auxiliary operations exceeds the national standard. If protective measures are not taken, it will cause irreversible harm to the health of workers.