Chapter 16 "I recognize people with stones in the pit!"

In most people's minds, accidents in coal mines in Shanxi Province are always linked with the death of miners.As long as there are mining accidents, it seems inevitable that there will be deaths. Here, we must first clarify the concepts of "accident" and "mine disaster". In Shanxi, the local people will strictly distinguish between the two. According to the understanding of the local people, the above two are "specific events that suddenly occurred in a specific environment."They believe that any big or small things that happen in the production process of coal mines, such as "mechanical failures", "production power outages", "wire rope breaks" that often occur under the pit, are considered "accidents".These "accidents" that often occur are big or small, serious or not serious, and "mine accidents" are one type of "accidents" and the highest level of "accidents".As a result, there are popular sayings in the local area that "mines are difficult, mines are difficult, no mines are not difficult" and "'mines' and 'difficulties' are not separated".

There are small and medium-sized coal mines everywhere in Shanxi, and mine disasters follow like a shadow. It can be said that there is no coal mine that has not had an "accident" under the pit.Note that we're talking about "accidents" here. In fact, it is not just coal mines that have "accidents" in the local area. Most people in this area go to "roll" to make money. "Rolling" is to dig a kind of iron ore that is abundant in the local area on the mountain. The color of this ore is yellowish brown and blue, like rust.Generally, the small hole for digging this kind of ore is not deep, generally tens of meters, and at most nearly a hundred meters.

After the ore is dug out, it can be pulled down the mountain and sold for money. Compared with digging coal in coal mines, "rolling" work faces a greater risk of accidents.Because the "roof" above the coal seam is an unusually hard stone layer "vault", while the "hole plate" part of the "Gunwozi" cave is a soft soil and stone layer.At the mining site of the coal mine, the professional safety workers responsible for safety under the pit will use pit wood supports according to the roof condition, which reduces the possibility of accidents to a certain extent.However, there is no such measure in the "rolling nest" hole.Therefore, from a certain point of view, compared with coal mines, "Gunwozi" has a much higher probability of "accidents" and thus more casualties.The "accidents" that happened in "Ganwozi" can be called "Gannan".

Generally speaking, "rolling disaster" is more harmful to society than "mine disaster", so it should attract more media and social attention.But what is puzzling is that we often see "mine disasters" in various news media, but until now, we have never seen "rolling disasters" appear in the media.In fact, in the local area, the "rolling boss" earns more money than the "coal boss".However, after some coal bosses have money, they take advantage of their wealth to bully the world, eat, drink, whore and gamble, and show off their wealth and wealth, which will naturally attract the "same hatred" from the public.Therefore, as of now, the "mining disaster" of the local coal mine is more "famous" than the "rolling disaster" of "Gunwozi".

Even so, the views of the local people on the mining accident are not always the same. Xu Baolin, a 30-something-year-old "veteran" who has worked as a puller in the pit for nearly ten years, his views on mine accidents represent the views of many local miners.In his opinion, the real mine disaster "accident" is not very terrible, what is terrible is the complete ignorance of this kind of disaster. Scientific common sense tells us that to know something, we must first be familiar with it and understand it before we can master it and use it.In this process, smart miners will do everything possible to study and analyze the occurrence of this kind of thing, so as to "foresight" and "plan ahead", and then scientifically evade and smartly escape.

In some local coal-producing areas, there is a common saying: "The stone under the pit recognizes a person!" It means that people who are familiar with the problem of landslides under the pit will never "suffer this loss", and once When an accident occurs, outsiders who are completely unfamiliar with the protection rules under the pit will bear the brunt of it. While the media has repeatedly publicized the horror of the mine disaster, the locals who have lived on the edge of the coal mine for generations walked into the mine without hesitation, which seems to explain something.