Chapter 55 Chapter 8 Accident [1]
"This year's snow is really not small. I heard from others last time that it was caused by the gradual popularization of coal burning and twinning products. The place where we live is covered. I put on a glass cover. If the temperature inside the glass cover is getting higher and higher, it is getting higher...", the worker wearing the worn cotton coat took out a match and talked about the hem of the cotton coat on the dry waistband. A bit. A bang was accompanied by a bit of horrible smoke, and the match was lit.
They are all holding their own cigarettes, and it’s not long before they have a bustling big city, but the consumption in that city is not They can imagine, they still honestly use a box of one hundred and five matches to order the cigarettes rolled up with their own tobacco.
Twenty people sit in the construction site of the Eastern Mountain Range, and the structure of the brackets like the huge tunnel built with wood and steel as the main body can be well blocked. Stones falling from both sides of the canyon need to be blasted whenever they encounter artificially unremovable stones. Blasting will cause the artificially opened canyons to rupture on both sides. It is easy to injure people when large and small stones fall, so joint construction In order to ensure the safety of workers and a stable working environment, they created an almost closed rectangular structure passage in the opened canyon.
At this time it is the turn of these workers to rest, and the joint construction workers provide three times the daily salary for those workers who do not return home during the New Year, until one The end of the 15th. This bonus is very attractive. Many people have chosen to stay. If they do the end of the month, they will be paid for one month but they will get two months' salary. This is very attractive to the workers.
With a violent explosion, the walls of the canyon that had been leveled on both sides were slightly shaken, and a piece of cracked stone fell from above and hung on the bracket. , the bracket is slightly distorted.
This kind of thing happens many times a day, everyone has long been accustomed to it. After a long time, the construction machinery will clean up the stones stacked on the bracket to ensure the support. The weight does not exceed the maximum capacity of the bracket itself. Then the workers will climb out on the ladder and work on the cliffs.
A woman who is also wrapped in a dilapidated cotton coat and a hood is pushing the dining car and coming in, except for some beef and wheat. A lot of cheap spirits and some hot drinks. This is the basic guarantee that the City of Otis must have when signing the contract. They must provide workers with places and food for heating in the winter.
The exhausted workers silently took back their lunch boxes from the dining car, sipping hot and bitter brushing water, and eating food with a big mouth, this is the time when they feel the happiest every day. . You don't need to work, you can fill your stomach and take a break. There is no more comfortable time than this time.
Similar breaks are forty or fifty in the entire project, and each such break will create such a break. In addition to the vertical construction, there are also horizontal constructions that need to be done. Although the construction machinery is very powerful, it is not something that can be done.
As for the worker who wants to show off a lot of things in his stomach, he also lost his temptation to seduce the food. In the quiet space, only The sound of swallowing.
Suddenly, a worker raised his head and looked around. "Have you heard it? It seems like there is a voice."
"What can I have?", the worker around him sighed, "Hurry to eat your things, sleep for an hour after eating, if you don't want to sleep, work in the afternoon." I am lazy, but I will report it." He is the foreman of this project. The main job is to lead everyone to the stone walls on both sides of the gorge that have been blasted and cleaned up, and to record who did it and who did it. it is good.
Joint construction workers from the Commonwealth are more aware of the role of the two specialities of internal competitiveness and role models in the group effect than the capitalists of the empire, each Every day, three people get an extra dollar reward, which is enough to motivate everyone's work. Especially after they have formulated more reward rules and punishment rules, everyone is working hard and few people will work hard. Choose to be lazy.
Every morning, an engineer will come to paint, the place where the green paint is sprayed should be reinforced, the place where the red paint is sprayed should be knocked off, and the three classes will continue to cycle with the night. Work has pushed the work process to the extreme.
The person who started talking was a little inexplicable. He took the lunch box and went to the support point for supporting the ceiling. There was a layer of wire outside the thick wood. Entangled with steel bars, not only has a certain hardness, but also has sufficient seismic resistance.
When he just walked into one of the support columns and had not had time to look carefully, suddenly a piece of sawdust flew to his face and took his The face hurts, he looks down at the sawdust lying in the lunch box, and suddenly there is an unspeakable fear in the inner world that spreads quickly, like the animals that were shaken before the earthquake and the birds that ran away before the storm. .
The weird voice in the ear seemed to be a little bigger, and it was a slamming sound. A piece of wood with a large palm fell off and slid against his body.
He suddenly turned his head and looked at the darkness of the tunnel like a tunnel. A breeze screamed quickly, after two or three seconds. There was a dull explosion in the ear! The lights hanging on the walls of the tunnel were darkened a few times, and everything that happened here was no different from five minutes ago, except for the fragments that collapsed. At the same time, at the headquarters of the joint construction workers at the federal headquarters, a much-drinked engineer woke up from the hangover, and he opened the window to see the heavy snow. At the time, my heart has just produced a language that wants to praise the snow scene. The next second, a strong heart made his whole person tremble, and he immediately rushed to the phone at the bedside, dialing the dial with his trembling fingers and calling the Federal Meteorological Institute.
"Is there a heavy snow in the empire?"
An answer is a slight band With the voice of a magnetic middle-aged man, this voice is still a joke: "You don't know the Ernier phenomenon? My answer is 'yes', and the Yaoxing Empire has been covered by snow and ice north of Rydal. There is heavy snow or even blizzard in the central region. What's wrong? You have relatives over there? Ah, I forgot, your company is working there..."
The whole engineer trembled. He hung up the phone and quickly dialed the international telephone line. After about seven minutes, the busy tone was heard in the handset. He waited anxiously, waiting for five or six minutes, and the phone was picked up.
When he waited for what the other person said, he almost snarled and shouted: "Evacate all the workers in the mountain work immediately, immediately!"
A lot of things happened in this short time, but the worker standing in front of the pillar was not clear, and the lunch box in his hand had fallen on the ground. There is also a slightly hot meal with a faint steam on one side, which cools quickly. The workers behind him stopped eating and looked at him strangely.
He gently touched the pillar with one hand, turned his head sideways and looked at the workers behind him. "I think this pillar seems to be unbearable." ......"
The next second, Beng's cracking sound is the kind of wire that is violently straightened. A twisted piece of steel suddenly collapses from the top of the tunnel, and the dragonfly flies and inserts at a strange angle. His body was shot from the side of the thigh and inserted on the ground. This steel bar made him not fall down immediately, and he didn't even feel the pain. He lowered his head and touched the half of his body that had lost consciousness, and then glanced at the steel bars that had pierced his thighs and exposed.
Everyone was shocked by the sudden and unexpected changes, they stood up in horror and rushed to him, and others rushed toward the alarm bell on the cliff, but More steel rods were shot from the ceiling in the sound of constantly tumbling and bursting. The wooden parts of the pillars began to show obvious breaks, and the steel bars and wires were twisted and whipped.
A layer of shadow covers everyone's mind. The first action of each person is to look into the tunnel mouth like a pinhole in the distance, then run out !
After the emergence of a sound that is not weaker than blasting, the latest seismographs in the Imperial Research Institute’s earthquake-related research group found that it was located in the southeastern part of the empire. A small-scale earthquake, the intensity is not high, and there is no sense of earthquake. Therefore, the researcher responsible for duty at this time only recorded this matter on the book used for daily information collection, and did not report to the superior.
After fifteen minutes, Du Lin, who was visiting his local celebrities and businessmen, sinned and stood up and picked up the phone. . His face was only a few seconds from the smile to the gloomy horror. After a moment he hung up and went to the center of the room. "I am very sorry, gentlemen, ladies, I have encountered some very urgent things. I need to go back to Otis. I am very sorry about this. I solemnly invite everyone to have a chance to come to Otis."
"Sorry! "
He walked out and asked Jose to call Thomas, let him send a speedboat to send himself to Otis, this time a big event!
The engineering sub-body collapsed completely, at least not less than 700 people were buried in the canyon. It is possible that this number will increase again because of the New Year’s salary increase. Something came to the temporary workers, they were not registered on the workers list.
Du Lin completely distrusts those who say that they are waiting for rescue. There is no doubt that the vast majority of these people should have been killed and suddenly died. More than a thousand people, this is definitely the most serious safety accident in the history of the Empire!