Hyosung Spandex factory in Zhuhai pipeline leak suspected

At 15:00 on the 1st and more, from Zhuhai City, Guangdong Gaolan Port Hyosung Spandex Ltd. gush about two hundred employees, every face filled with panic, the plant area a pipeline being thick white smoke out smoke, pungent odor filled the air . There is a factory worker , said the factory pipeline under fire , the workers did not hear any alarms at no organization in their own circumstances to flee. Reporters learned from Gaolangang aspects , accident or as a pipeline leak , no casualties , the accident is under investigation.Wholesale masking tape


Nobody panic to escape the organization of hundreds of employees

"We did not hear any sirens , a leading organization that we did not run out , the smoke will take almost 20 minutes before we know ." Yesterday, at the company 's Hyosung Spandex Yao Qing ( a pseudonym ) told reporters that the 1st 15:50 or so they ran out, the scene was very chaotic , so that they are scared to think of it .

Many workers in the south are reporters confirmed that workers in the workshop was found working outside the factory pipes smoke, like fire , this notification in the factory working with relatives and friends , so we knew something was wrong outside . Ran out of the way they smell a pungent chemical odor , so cover your mouth with clothes , but his eyes still Xunde difficult subject. In the factory , there are the first to run out of workers said they were on their own for almost 20 minutes ago ran out.Masking tape


Workers seen outside the factory in Zhuhai Avenue has parked three or four fire engines, but because you do not see the fire, the fire brigade is temporarily on hold , the police are on the way to set up " ice cream cones " , closed side of the road .

Company responsible person " is effective evacuation "

Reporters learned that the company is of Korean Hyosung Spandex , Zhuhai plant is the world's largest single-plant production of spandex plant currently employs about 500 people , one afternoon , about 200 employees in the factory .

According to the workers introduced , the factory 's raw material is a transparent liquid like water , but the pungent taste, after the plant 's multiple pipelines , multiple processes through final processing into linear spandex, used in the manufacture of jeans and so on. The reason they think that is a fire , due to the plant for up to five hours had a fire occurred in the January 26, 2011 over the fire department dispatched 13 fire engines before putting the fire out.

For employees said did not hear sirens , no leadership and organization evacuation problems, Hyosung Spandex responsible person surnamed Li said his company in a meeting at the Southern reporter received phone can say is the only company that had sent people go to the worker " thrust out " , factory entrances allowed to enter only let out , the alarm rang , but because confusion may "Some people can not hear ," there were no casualties in the accident , also shows that the evacuation is effect .Washi tape


The official response

Environmental testing results released

Yesterday, Zhuhai City Fire Department Public Information Section of the staff told reporters that the company on the 1st afternoon Hyosung Spandex not fire, leaking pipes may be due to this event is outside the jurisdiction of the fire department , it is recommended that reporters learn to respect Gaolangang situation.

A Zhuhai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau邓科长said that although the 1st day of environmental protection departments have the staff to the scene for testing, but because the matter involves safety supervision, environmental protection, local governments and hurdles Port, environmental protection departments will detect inconvenience themselves case revealed that the results can only be provided to the high hurdles Port, aggregated by their information released to the media after the unification .Sellotape