The Hubei Provincial Emergency Management Department released the news on the evening of September 28. At 14:15 on September 28, 2020, Tianmen Chutian Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tianmen Chutian Fine Chemical), Yuekou Industrial Park, Tianmen City, carried out equipment debugging During the period, the plate and frame press exploded, and it was initially found that 5 people were killed and 1 injured at the scene of the accident. The search and rescue work is still going on.
The official website of Tianmen Chutian Fine Chemicals shows that the company was founded in 1997. Its predecessor was Chutian Fine Chemical Factory in Xiantao City. It is a pharmaceutical and chemical enterprise specializing in the research, development, production and sales of pharmaceutical intermediates. In 2011, as a key investment promotion enterprise in Tianmen City, it entered Yuekou Industrial Park. In terms of products, 2-chloro-1,4-naphthoquinone and 4(4-chlorophenyl)cyclohexyl-1-carboxylic acid produced by the company are two important intermediates for the production of atovaquone. Valaquinone is a WHO-appointed AIDS drug. 2,7-Dichlorofluorene is an important intermediate of the antimalarial drug benzofluorenol. With high technology and high quality, the products are sold to large and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies at home and abroad and the WHO.
According to a report from Tianmen Daily on April 13, 2020, Lu Weiqiao, chairman of Tianmen Chutian Fine Chemicals, said that the company signed a 9.5 million yuan purchase and sales contract with Jiangsu Ruibang Agrochemical Co., Ltd., and the company is at full capacity. Production rushes to orders. Reports at the time showed that the production capacity of Tianmen Chutian Fine Chemicals had recovered 100%.
However, on April 28, 2020, Tianmen Chutian Fine Chemicals also received a fine from the environmental protection department. According to information from Qixinbao, the company was fined 470,000 yuan by the Tianmen Ecological Environment Bureau for evading supervision (irregular operation of water pollution prevention facilities) for discharging water pollutants.
It is worth noting that a message released by the Hubei Provincial Emergency Management Department in April 2020 showed that according to the results of the safety risk assessment and diagnosis classification results of the production and storage enterprises of hazardous chemicals in Hubei Province, the risk level of Tianmen Chutian Fine Chemicals is yellow. The above news further pointed out that in accordance with the principle of “focusing on rectifying orange enterprises, strengthening yellow enterprises, and consolidating and improving blue enterprises”, the regulatory authorities will strictly supervise law enforcement and strengthen corporate safety risks through daily inspections, key inspections, random inspections, etc. Control
