This paper describes five disastrous explosion accidents that occurred in recent years created serious of lives and property. The five explosions are: 1) The explosion at a TNT workshop of a chemical factory, Liaoning province, on February 9, 1991, in which 17 employees died and 107 injured; 2) The nitro-amine explosive production workshop of a chemical factory in Hubei province on June 27, 1992, which led to the deaths of 22 employees and 13 injuries; 3) An explosion is storage warehouses containing dangerous goods in Shenzhen City on August 5, 1993, where killed and 141 were injures; 4) A explosion of truck loaded with 1.05 million detonation on October 23, 1994 causing 5 death and 95 injures, and 5) An RDX explosive accident in Human province on January 31, 1996 in which 134 persons died and 17 injured. In this paper, the causes of these accidents are described and the lessons be learned from theses accident are summarized. Great changes and significant achievements have taken place and the national economy has been developing at high speed since China reform and open policy. But as far as safety in production is concerned, catastrophic explosion accidents have occurred in recent times and some of them are exceptionally serious in history. The author has participated in the investigation of many explosion accidents, which brought about heavy casualties and great economic losses. The bitter experiences have given us many beneficial lessons written in blood from which we must try to avoid such similar unnecessary accidents. In this paper, the causes of five disastrous explosion accidents are analyzed and lessons learned from these accident are summarized. Proposals for safety production are also put forward here.
展开▼
