| Smoke and fire billow from a chemical plant after an explosion in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu province，January 7, 2010. The blast that happened at around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday left five people missing and five injured, including one in critical condition, Xinhua reported.[Photo/CFP]  | | Smoke and fire billow from a chemical plant after an explosion in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu province，January 7, 2010. The blast that happened at around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday left five people missing and five injured, including one in critical condition, Xinhua reported. [Photo/Xinhua] |  | | Fire engines arrive at a chemical plant after an explosion in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu province，January 7, 2010. The blast that happened at around 5:30 p.m. Thursday left five people missing and five injured, including one in critical condition, Xinhua reported.[Photo/Xinhua]  | | A woman takes care of a person injured by the explosion at a chemical plant in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu province，January 7, 2010. The blast that happened at around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday left five people missing and five injured, including one in critical condition, Xinhua reported.[Photo/CFP] Chemical plant explosion in Harbin
(IC Media)
Updated: 2006-04-07 07:17 
Firefighters try to put out a fire after an explosion hit a chemical plant in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province April 6, 2006. None at the factory could be found except one injured worker, local media said. [IC Media]
An explosion hits a chemical plant in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province April 6, 2006. None at the factory could be found except one injured worker, local media said. [IC Media] 
Firefighters try to put out a fire after an explosion hit a chemical plant in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province April 6, 2006. None at the factory could be found except one injured worker, local media said. [IC Media]
Smoke billows from a fire after an explosion hit a chemical plant in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province April 6, 2006. None at the factory could be found except one injured worker, local media said. [IC Media] Chemical plant explosion kills 14 (AP) Updated: 2006-06-18 09:55 An explosion at a chemical plant in Anhui Province killed 14 people and injured 30, the government said Saturday, in the third major industrial disaster to strike China this week. 
Local firefighters clear the site on June 17, 2006, after a Friday blast occured in the chemical plant in east China's Anhui Province. The two-story workshop complex has been razed to the ground. [sina] | The Xinhua News Agency said the death toll rose to 14 from 10 on Saturday but did not give any details. The report cited Chen Shuo, deputy director of the Anhui Provincial Administration of Work Safety. Xinhua said it was still not known how many people were in the factory at the time. Nor was it clear what caused Friday's blast at the chemical explosives factory owned by the Dun'an Chemical group Co., Ltd. in Anhui, said a statement posted on the Maanshan city government Web site. Maanshan oversees Dangtu county, where the plant is located. Xinhua said an initial investigation showed that the blast occurred while powder for making explosives was being emulsified. The factory's two-story workshop was razed and that firefighters were still working Saturday to put out the fire, Xinhua said. The site was sealed off as a precaution against other explosions. The Maanshan city statement quoted the provincial party head, Guo Jinlong, said an investigation into the cause of the blast had been launched. It was the second blast to hit China's chemical industry this week. On Thursday, a series of explosions at the Longxing Chemical Co. plant in Zhejiang province left one person injured and two missing. The plant, which is close to the Oujiang river, mainly produces hydrogen peroxide - a chemical commonly used for bleaching, antiseptics and deodorants, Xinhua reported earlier. Industrial hydrogen peroxide contains arsenic, heavy metals and other toxic ingredients. Emergency workers trucked sand and rocks to the blast site to prevent contamination of a nearby spring that feeds into Oujiang, Xinhua said. Some 4.7 million people live along the Oujiang, which winds its way nearly 360 miles to the East China Sea. Meanwhile, on Monday a river in north China was contaminated when a truck overloaded with coal tar crashed and dumped its cargo into the Dasha river in Shanxi province. The accident forced local officials to build a series of 51 makeshift dams to slow the river and give them time to soak up the sludge with cotton quilts, straw and activated carbon before it could flow into a major reservoir some 45 miles downstream. The Wangkuai Reservoir provides water for irrigation and other industrial uses to Baoding city, which has a population of about 10 million people. It is not the city's source for drinking water.  | Firefighters try to put out a fire at a factory in Icheon, about 60 km (40 miles) southeast of Seoul, January 7, 2008. At least seven people were killed and 32 others reported missing on Monday after a fire ripped through a warehouse for frozen goods under construction in Icheon, a fire official said. [Agencies
Chemical plant blast kills three (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-12-15 11:40 ข่าวปีที่แล้ว กลางเดือน ธันวาคม 2552Three workers are dead and more could be injured following a gas explosion at a private chemical plant in south Beijing's Fangshan district yesterday.  Fire brigade officers investigate the explosion in which three men died at a chemical plant in Fangshan district Monday. [China Daily] | The deadly explosion took place at 10:40 am inside a plant at the Beijing Guangzhongyuan Gas Co Ltd, a joint venture between State-owned Beijing Chemical Industry Group Corporation Co Ltd and a private company. The powerful explosion destroyed a chemical tank at the plant and sent workers on its roof flying into the air, witnesses said. A white gas cloud meters high was visible from across the street, according to the national television network CCTV. The explosion also caused fire at the scene, but firefighters prevented more plants from being damaged. The incident's victims include Meng Guangyan and Li Quanxi, two workers from the Guangzhongyuan company. The third victim was identified as Cheng Longju, a construction worker from the China Chemical Engineering and Construction Third Company, according to a news release handed out to reporters on the scene. A construction worker was found to have moved a key circuit at the scene that caused the explosion, the release said. "The accident was caused by human error," investigators said. Guangzhongyuan company, which produces liquid nitrogen among other chemical materials, has been working with the construction company to rebuild its plant into a recycling center for carbon black pigment. But the construction company could not be reached for comment at the time of press yesterday. Aside from the government press release, the Beijing Evening News put the number of injured at more than 10. However, neither the Beijing municipal administration of work and safety, nor the plant yesterday confirmed this figure. Hospitals near the plant said they did not receive any injuries as a result of explosion yesterday. Officials from the work safety authority said the investigation was ongoing as of yesterday evening. Another deadly explosion took place in Fangshan district on Nov 24 when a gas tank driver ignited the fuel tank by accident. That explosion killed two drivers and injured another two. A truck nearby was also damaged. METRO Death toll rises to 6 in Yunnan colliery gas blast (Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-12-30 14:01
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 | | Rescuers gather at the entrance of a shaft of Malishu Coal Mine in Shuangbai County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 28, 2009. [Photo/CFP] |  | | Rescuers gather at the entrance of a shaft of Malishu Coal Mine in Shuangbai County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 28, 2009. [Photo/CFP] | | | |
