Defendant Yu XX, male, former chairman of Hubei A Chemical Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as A Chemical Group) and Dangyang B Gangue Power Generation Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as B Gangue Power Generation Company), which is invested by A Chemical Group.

Defendant Zhang XX, male, former deputy manager of A Chemical Group Material Supply Company.

Defendant Shuang XX, male, former general manager of B gangue power generation company.

Defendant Zhao Moumou, male, former deputy general manager and chief engineer of A Chemical Group.

Defendant Ye XX, male, former head of Production Department of A Chemical Industry Group.

Defendant Zhao Yu, male, former executive deputy general manager and chief engineer of B Gangue Power Generation Company.

Defendant Wang Moumou, male, former director of boiler workshop of B Gangue Power Generation Company.

B gangue power generation company heat and power co-generation project started construction.During the construction, in order to speed up the construction progress, Yu XXX and Shuang XXX did not organize the invitation for bidding by themselves according to the requirements of Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission on the public bidding of the project when purchasing equipment.Zhang Mou received no production qualification of a Chongqing Instrument Co., Ltd. (referred to as instrument company) responsible person Li Mou gave 4000 yuan and fishing rod and other property, to purchase the quality of the unqualified “integrated welding type long neck nozzle” (referred to as the nozzle), installed in No.2, No.3 boiler high pressure main steam pipeline.After the completion of the project, Yu XX, double XX decided to trial production without authorization.

In the early morning of August 10, 2016, the staff of the boiler workshop of B Gangue Power Generation Company on duty found that the front floor of the central control room was dripping water and the insulation layer of the high-pressure main steam pipeline of No. 2 Boiler was leaking steam during the inspection.Zhao Yu, Wang Mou rushed to the scene, did not find the dripping situation and leakage point, no further investigation.At 11 o ‘clock on August 11, the boiler operator found a leak near the accident nozzle and the temperature was higher than usual, Zhao Yu instructed the staff on duty to continue to strengthen monitoring.At about 13 o ‘clock, the steam leakage from the main steam pipe of No.2 boiler was more obvious and accompanied by high-frequency noise.Zhao Yu, Wang Moumou did not according to the “Boiler Safety Technical Regulations” “Boiler Operation Regulations” and other provisions of the emergency shutdown instructions.From 13:50 to 14:20, Ye received three phone calls from the deputy chief of the Production Division of B Stone Power Generation Company and the dispatcher of the Production Dispatch Center of A Chemical Group, reporting that “there is A leak in the main steam pipeline of No. 2 Boiler, and we request to stop the boiler”.Ye neither to the scene disposal, nor according to the provisions of the order to stop the furnace.At 14:30, Ye X reported to Zhao X “steam pipeline leakage, the power plant required to stop the furnace”.Zhao Mou some did not according to the provisions of the order to stop the furnace, also did not go to the scene disposal.At 14:49, the nozzles on the high-pressure main steam pipe of No.2 boiler burst, causing a large number of high-temperature steam to spray into the accident area, resulting in 22 deaths, 4 injuries, direct economic losses of 23.13 million yuan.

To inspect the performance of their duties

After the accident, the public security bureau of the city of Yang on suspicion of serious liability accident crime of Yu, Zhang, Zhao, Wang, Zhao, Ye and other people on file investigation and take compulsory measures.The People’s Procuratorate of Yangyang City intervened in advance and participated in the study of the case of the public security organs. The key points of evidence collection were put forward from three aspects: first, it was to find out whether the accident enterprises violated laws and regulations in the process of project approval, equipment procurement, project construction and bidding;The second is to find out the management responsibility of Yu and others for the safety production of enterprises;The third is to find out in the course of the accident, Yu and other people’s performance of duty and specific behavior.When the Public Security Bureau of Yangyang supplemented and improved the above evidence, after the investigation was completed, 7 persons including Yu XX and others were successively transferred to the People’s Procuratorate of Yangyang for prosecution on January 23, 2017 solstice and February 22, 2017.

On August 21, 2018, the People’s Court of Dangyang City sentenced the defendants Yu, Shuang and Zhang to fixed-term imprisonment of five years, four years and five years respectively for the crime of serious labor safety accident.Zhao was sentenced to four and six months in prison for the crime of major accident and the crime of helping to destroy evidence, and decided to serve four and three months for several crimes.With the crime of major liability accident respectively sentenced to the defendant Ye, Zhao Yu, Wang Mou sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of four years, five years, four years.None of the defendants appealed and the sentences took effect.