Nghe An: Fine of 285 million VND, suspension of 3 months for quarry blasting that damaged people's houses

On October 1, the leader of the People's Committee of Ky Son district said that the district had just decided to impose administrative sanctions in the field of minerals on Hong Truong Company Limited. This company is the owner of the quarry that exploded a mine, damaging houses and injuring people in Kim Da village, Pha Danh commune (Ky Son), as reported by Nghe An Newspaper.reflectionon September 14th.

Through inspection, the authorities determined that this quarry was not exploited in accordance with the mining order and mining system specified in the approved mine design; The blasting passport was not consistent with the blasting design that had been established and approved; Violating technical safety standards on industrial explosives in the use of industrial explosives; Using people who had not been trained, tested and granted a Certificate of technical safety for industrial explosives and explosive precursors.

The aggravating circumstances are that the administrative violation is a repeat offense. The mitigating circumstances are that the company has voluntarily remedied the consequences and compensated for the damage; the company has voluntarily reported and actively assisted the authorities in handling the administrative violation.

Hong Truong Company Ltd.'s quarry was suspended for 3 months. Photo: Tien Hung

For the violation of mining not following the mining order and mining system determined in the approved mine design, this company was fined 90 million VND.;Violations of blasting passports that are not in accordance with the blasting design that has been established and approved will be fined 15 million VND; Violations of technical safety standards on industrial explosives in the use of industrial explosives will be fined 50 million VND; Violations of using people who have not been trained, tested and granted a Certificate of technical safety for industrial explosives and explosive precursors will be fined 45 million VND.

The total fine is 200 million VND. In addition, the company was also suspended by Ky Son district from mineral exploitation for 3 months, and from industrial explosives and explosive precursors for 3 months. At the same time, it is required to exploit according to the mining method specified in the license: correct mine opening system; correct mining sequence; correct mining system; correct parameters of the mining system, including: layer height, slope angle of layer; dumping waste at the correct location determined in the approved mine design/technical economic report. It is required to restore the original state that was changed for the violation.

The company sent people to repair the house because of damage caused by flying rocks. Photo: Tien Hung

Also during this period, Ky Son district also added a decision to sanction administrative violations in mineral activities against Hong Truong Company Limited. Accordingly, the district doubled the fine in May for this quarry from 85 million VND.

Specifically, on May 5, after Nghe An Newspaper reported that this quarry exploded and threw mines into houses, injuring people and damaging houses, Ky Son districtdecision to fine 85 million VNDfor acts such as violating regulations on mine design; not installing a weighing station at the place where raw minerals are transported out of the mine to monitor and store relevant information for the exploitation of minerals for common construction materials using industrial explosives; violating technical safety standards on industrial explosives in the use of industrial explosives.

“However, after review, the penalty decision was found to be incorrect. The fine of 85 million VND for those three violations was applied to individuals. This is an organization, so it must be doubled. Therefore, the district has decided to supplement and raise the fine to 170 million VND. Thus, this time, in addition to the 3-month mine suspension, the company was fined up to 285 million VND,” said the leader of Ky Son district.

Previously, at noon on September 14, the quarry of Hong Truong Company Ltd. exploded, causing rocks to fly hundreds of meters, damaging 6 houses in Kim Da village. The flying rocks broke tiles. The broken tiles fell and hit a child over 1 year old lying on the bed, injuring him. This is the second time in the past six months that this quarry has exploded.make rocks fall on housesAfter Nghe An Newspaper published an article, the Provincial People's Committee haddirective text, established an interdisciplinary inspection team at this quarry.