19 19 Boston molasses disaster, what happened?
Why is molasses a disaster? The distillation company has an unshirkable responsibility in this accident.
Molasses accident in Boston, USA? Tsunami Many Bostonians will never forget this: in 20091965438+65438+1October 15, the weather was four degrees above zero, and just the day before, it was still shivering with cold, fifteen degrees below zero.
Such extreme weather made many people complain, but they didn't think that not only the cold and heat were unbearable, but also the materials in those factories had problems caused by the sudden change of cold and heat.
This includes a storage tank in the residential area of Boston at that time, which was used by a pure distillation company in the United States to hold syrup and was built in 19 18.
Speaking of this pure distillation company, it is really an American industrial giant. During the First World War, they took advantage of the fact that various countries lacked ethanol and began to mass-produce sugar concentrates that could produce ethanol. It can be said that war is the source of their wealth: ethanol guarantees the war, while molasses supplies the extraction of ethanol.
However, the war is over, and the company has no place to put it because it has accumulated too much molasses? Sweet distress? . Those giants who make money and make soft money directly let people build a storage tank and then store these liquid molasses in the open air in residential areas.
The company has neither conducted safety inspection on the storage tanks, nor thought about whether the storage conditions in the open air meet the standards. Perhaps for them, this is an unnecessary thing, just waiting for the war to start again and play its role.
However, these molasses are not used to extract ethanol, but because of the explosion caused by weather fusion? Tsunami. It's no exaggeration to say it's a tsunami. At that time, molasses spewed out of the storage tank and produced huge waves more than three meters high, and even more hot gas generated by fermentation rushed to people, vehicles and shops at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour.
265,438+0 people died on the spot, and more than 65,438+000 people were injured, with many horses and shops. This sudden strength is beyond people's endurance and is enough for local people to remember for a lifetime.
In this disaster, a little boy named Anthony was walking home with his sister. However, just as he was about to get home, the molasses storage tank burst, and he was almost pushed out under the whirlwind, and then suffocated by the liquid sweet to his throat.
Although Anthony was unconscious, he finally woke up. What about his sister? In fact, there are many people who are as unfortunate as his sister. According to their usual life track, they should have lived a carefree life. But after the sugar jar suddenly burst, life ended in? Sweet death? I'm in.
The accident killed more than 20 people, and the distillation company tried to blame others. Why is it poisonous?
A huge sugar honeypot, with a height of 15m and a diameter of 25m, contains nearly14000t of syrup. The operation itself is very dangerous, the volume is too large, the material of the jar does not meet the safety regulations, it fails to pass the safety inspection, and even the leakage problem cannot be guaranteed.
According to informed sources, cracks were found in the jar when molasses was poured. But this did not attract the attention of anyone in the company, including people in local residential areas. On the contrary, many people regard this place as free sugar water, and people often drink it with utensils.
However, two days before and after the incident, the temperature suddenly changed greatly, resulting in a rapid increase in the pressure in the tank, and molasses fermentation made the original cracks unbearable. As a result, man-made disasters come, and the dead will never understand that they are still alive? Is it sweet? Dead.
What about the distillation company? In the face of such a big accident, they didn't take any responsibility. On the contrary, they think it is not their own responsibility. It is likely that someone retaliated and caused the jar to explode.
Why do you say that? Because of the huge compensation, of course. Distillation companies will not be directly responsible as long as they do not admit that their tanks have potential safety hazards. How sinister is this? How can the dead sleep?
Of course, in the end, the distillation company was awarded compensation, but the dead and wounded could no longer have a good impression on this sweetness. What's more, some people will never smell it.
Because it gives people a really bad feeling, just like Stephen, a writer who also experienced this disaster? Pouliot said: the whole street is full of syrup, bubbling everywhere, people and animals struggling to be swallowed up by syrup everywhere, and a large number of horses die like flies standing on sticky paper.
The root cause of this tragedy is only because the company is not serious about safety issues. Accidents may not be everyone's inner desire, but there are always people who tie safety and luck together. They will never predict the consequences of an accident, nor will they care how cruel the accident itself will be.
At that time, the newspaper reported that
In fact, in a relatively absolute sentence: whoever ignores the accident and causes safety problems is the murderer! What's more, these people are still thinking about passing the buck after the accident, and their nature is even worse.
In the face of money, everyone has the obligation to bear the consequences of its realization. Safety in production is to shoulder the responsibility, and always take respecting and attaching importance to life as its own responsibility. Otherwise, even if you can get some money in production, the consequences of the accident will make your life difficult.
Monument at the gate of the park
Today, the old molasses storage tank of the distillation company has been kept in place, but it has been transformed into a park, and there is a very clear accident explanation board at the entrance of the park. Of course, the explanation not only thinks that there is a problem with the safe operation of the distillation company, but also mentions the warm winter, which obviously makes people think more.