Fatal fire: The electric car can't stand it

Electric vehicles have become a popular means of transportation for ordinary people in daily life. In recent years, electric vehicles have repeatedly caused fires and fatal fires have consumed people's lives and property.

At 2:58 on October 11, 2013 Xu, Shijingshan District, Beijing Hi Rondo shopping plaza first floor Beijing McDonald's Food Co., Ltd. Yangzhuang restaurant fire accident, the fire quickly spread to the hi Rondo shopping plaza, burned area of about 3800 m . The accident caused the death of two fire officers and caused a direct loss of property of 13.08 million yuan.

After the accident

After the Beijing McDonald's Food Co., Ltd. to implement Yangzhuang restaurant is open 24 h, the evening of October 10, 2013, the outgoing member has to connect the four electric car battery and charger, plug in the restaurant desserts operation external power strip. Before the accident, there were 6 employees working in the restaurant . l1 day 2:52, two employees smelled the odor when wiping the glass outside the restaurant. 2:56, Yangzhuang restaurant manager on duty Chenyan Jie after receiving the staff report, into the operating room to see the dessert. During the viewing process, smoke suddenly appeared in the middle and lower center of the counter in the dessert operation room. About 2 minutes later, smoke emerges from the smoke and begins to spread. During the night, Xi Bo, a fire-fighting central guard on duty at Beijing Xilongdu Shopping Center Co., Ltd., found that the central control host displayed an alarm. At 3 o'clock, Liu Bo found that McDonald's, Xilunduo Shopping Plaza and the second floor of West B District at the same time alarm and did not reset. Tao Zhangming, the on-duty manager on duty, heard the sound of a fire alarm issued by the central control room. He went to the central control room and asked him to check the location of the alarm display. He found that the take-out window of the Yangzhuang Restaurant's dessert operation room had begun to burn and flames had emerged.

3:00 l3 points, McDonald's restaurants and shopping plaza facade above the south gate position of the door first light boxes, LED strip electronic screen, billboards and exterior surface decoration happen violent burning to form a "rain of fire", by means of fire and steel materials The hollow drawing force of the support structure quickly spreads vertically and forms vertical burning. At the same time, the fires successively entered the interior of the shopping mall through the glass windows of the south-facing outer wall, and quickly spread to other areas of the main building. 3:22, Fire - Bo will convert a manually set to control automatic setting state. But 3:15 bus circuit 1, a short-circuit fault, causes the controller to the control module, the signal module is not normally sent and received signals, resulting in automatic sprinkler systems, fire shutter doors fixed fire facilities are not effectively function within the shopping mall.

At 2:59 on the 11th, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Fire Department after receiving the fire alarm, has mobilized 15 fire squadron, 63 fire engines and more than 300 fire officers and soldiers to the scene to put out the fire. After the war the soldiers hard efforts, l0 20 minutes, to obtain effective control of the fire. On the day of lI , the fire was extinguished. The accident eventually caused the death of two fire police officers and caused a direct loss of property of 13.08 million yuan.

The nature and reason of the accident

The accident investigation team determined that the “ 10 · 11 ” major fire accident at Xilong Shopping Plaza in Shijingshan District was a safety accident accident.

The direct cause of the fire was an electrical fault in the charging process of the electric bicycle battery in the McDonald's ( Yangzhuang Restaurant ) dessert operation room on the first floor of Xilongdu Shopping Plaza .

The indirect causes of the accident are mainly the following three aspects:

First, when Yangzhuang Restaurant of McDonald's Food Co., Ltd. found the fire, employees did not implement effective rescue, resulting in the fire not being controlled at an early stage. McDonald's Foods Co., Ltd. does not provide enough safety training for its employees, and it lacks pertinence for the safety training and education of all employees in terms of safe use of electricity, fire drills, and fire suppression. The supervision and inspection of safety hidden dangers in Yangzhuang Restaurant was not in place. The restaurant was not urged to strictly implement the hidden trouble investigation and management system. The safety exit was locked before the incident. Although the company had found that Yangzhuang Restaurant had violated the company's system for a long time, the company had been allowed to deliver personnel during daily supervision and inspection. The use of an external terminal board to charge the battery of an electric vehicle poses a safety hazard, but it has not been stopped. The enterprise safety management organization is not perfect. In the case where the number of employees exceeds 300 , the safety production management organization or the full-time safety production management personnel are not set up in accordance with the requirements of the safety production law . A sound safety responsibility system has not been established. The decomposition of the safety management responsibilities of the company's main leaders, business leaders, and some responsible persons is not clear. Yangzhuang Restaurant did not comply with the requirements of the building regulations. Before the accident, the restaurant's renovation project was implemented without having to apply for a construction permit to the construction administrative department.

Second, Beijing Hi Rondo Shopping Center Ltd. does not implement fire safety regulations, fire control room should be arranged two or more persons have built (structure) Fireman qualified on duty, but only arranged a long-term qualified personnel on duty . There are safety hazards in the fixed fire-fighting facilities. The hydrant pump control cabinets and spray pump control cabinets in the shopping mall should be set to the automatic state. However, long-term violations of the fire code requirements are set to the manual state, resulting in the fixed fire facilities failing to function effectively. The emergency personnel on duty were improperly handled. After the fire in Yangzhuang Restaurant, the automatic fire alarm system in the control room of the shopping mall received a continuous alarm in due course. The relevant personnel of the fire control room did not transfer the fire hydrant pump control cabinet and spray pump control from the manual setting to the timely one. Automatic linkage status, resulting in automatic sprinkler systems, fire shutter doors and other fixed fire facilities did not play an effective role. The daily safety training and education for employees is not well-targeted and is in a formality. As a result, relevant personnel on duty do not take effective emergency measures in time. The safety hidden trouble investigation and management is not in place. In the daily supervision and inspection, the company has not eliminated the safety hazards such as the failure of the fire control room to be equipped with on-duty personnel and the related fixed fire control system switch in the manual state. The Xilongdu Shopping Plaza, which has not been completed for construction and acceptance by the construction administrative department, will be used for production and operation.

Thirdly, Shijingshan District Agribusiness Corporation, as the property right unit of the Beijing Xilongdu Shopping Center building, should have performed its duties of daily supervision and inspection of tenants in accordance with the law. However, the company has no safety management organization, no safety management personnel, and has not performed supervision. Inspection duties, undetected fire safety hazards and violations of laws and regulations for Beijing Xilong Shopping Co., Ltd.

Accident prevention measures

McDonald's Foods Co., Ltd. shall establish a special safety production management agency or full-time safety production management personnel in strict accordance with the Safety Production Act , comprehensively review the safety power consumption system of enterprises, and improve the management of various electric equipment, in particular, strengthen the delivery of personnel to electric vehicles. Charging link system construction and safety management. Strictly supervise the company-owned restaurants to implement the company's management systems and eliminate any illegal electricity use in their restaurants. Strengthen the company's management staff and employees at all levels of fire safety and safe production of knowledge, enhance safety awareness; regularly organize restaurants to carry out targeted fire emergency drills to improve the overall emergency handling capacity.

Xilongdu Shopping Center Co., Ltd. shall strictly implement ( safety production law, fire laws and other laws and regulations, conscientiously carry out daily safety inspections, strengthen the investigation and rectification of hidden dangers, strengthen safety education and training, and organize emergency drills in strict accordance with national standards. It is required to implement the duty control system in the fire control center to ensure that the daily status of various types of fire protection facilities meets the requirements of the national standards and eliminate the hidden dangers of fire protection facilities, and to strengthen the fire safety inspection of merchants, especially the independent operators, and clarify their respective fire protection responsibilities.

Shijingshan District Agri-Industry and Industry Corporation shall strictly follow the safety agreement and supervise the leasing enterprise to implement the requirements of fire-related laws, regulations and national standards, and strictly perform its own duties in the daily supervision and inspection process.

The people's governments of all regions must earnestly learn lessons from accidents, implement local responsibility for safe production, urge relevant departments to strengthen routine supervision and inspections, strengthen the implementation of industrial safety management work, and do a good job in safety production and fire safety work at the source to establish a long-term safety production mechanism. . First, supervise the planning, urban management, housing construction, land and other departments and territorial streets combined with the actual situation of the region, strengthen the study of cracking down on illegal construction work, crack down on illegal construction activities, and resolutely eradicate various types of safety hazards caused by illegal construction. The second is to supervise the relevant government departments to regulate the relevant administrative examination and approval procedures. In handling the relevant administrative licenses, it is legally required to examine whether the use of leased houses is in accordance with the planned design use, whether it complies with laws, regulations, rules, etc., on relevant activity sites, and prohibits illegal construction. All production and business activities within. Third, supervise the management departments of commerce, industry and commerce and other industries to earnestly implement the industry management responsibilities, and earnestly strengthen the safety management of various densely populated places such as the commerce market and catering areas in the jurisdiction; the safety production supervision and administration department must give full play to the safety production of the industry and the affiliated region. Supervise, supervise and guide all departments and dependants to do routine inspections and inspections to eliminate all kinds of safety hazards in time.

This article comes from "Labor Protection" January 2018.