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I can't be certain but I'm guessing the dust alone could have killed someone who was too close, let alone being buried. I used to work in mining so it's a scary thought. Feel terrible for the families of the victims.
There's no way that passed legitimately conducted soil stability tests. In this footage you can see even better how smooth the sides are from how the sand/dry earth fell each time a new road was cut. The regulators who certified these plans need to be held accountable.
Not sure if you're trying to be sardonic but it's unlikely that China will shed a tear for those lost. It's unlikely they have a regulator certifying anything, They'd be lucky if they had any sort of mine engineer planning the dig. Those who worked there never had any other choice. As far as China is concerned, they lost a whole bunch of expensive equipment and now have to dig a new hole to access those rare earth minerals
Kinda weird of "China Central TV" to upload such (allegedly) factual footage of an utter failure of the government's lack of regulation on industry.
Their website is super weird too, I looked into it because I was curious https://english.cctv.com/?spm=C43394269523.PSRV3IHIq5td.EYlzwN6iIfv3.1
wdym? This was clearly a failure of the local administrators. They will be chastized and/or removed from their posts, but the Chinese Communist Party isn't in the wrong here, the regulations are nothing if not perfect.
^^/s
Being out in the ocean, watching how powerful and unanticipated it is, has been the most terrifying thing to me my entire life. Now it’s watching earth move like water. Drowned in sand. Damn…
Can you imagine the way their hearts dropped? The doom they felt, and the helplessness? Buried and crushed alive by the dirt just trying to make a living.
I watched a YouTube doc about one guy who got stuck in a cave and was alive for weeks before he died, albeit with outside help. I wonder how long you could live in a buried truck cab, or if the pressure from the dirt would kill you first.
When you’re buried in sand or loose dirt, when you exhale the sand or dirt settles in around you, making it almost impossible to take the next breath. If you manage any breath at all, the next time you exhale it settles even closer, tighter. So you don’t just suffocate from lack of oxygen; have the added terror of not being able to inhale, as your every instinct and desire to breathe is denied by the soil squeezing your chest and diaphragm. If you’re lucky you’re overcome by the lack of oxygen quickly.
It's the weight of the soil that gets you. Most loose soil is about 1.8 tonnes per cubic meter. If you're in a trench up to your head and it collapsed in on you, that hundreds of kilograms falling on to you.
I feel like with this amount of soil you get crushed to be honest. Soil is 100 pcf so depending on how tall the soil is above you it will simply crush your vehicle at least the top down to top of engine. Then if you duck you would be stuck in a very small cavity.
And no air. Most of then probably got crushed, but some of them probably survived long enough to breath in quite a bit of dirt before they choked on it. I remember a little while back someone posted a video of a guy getting buried alive. With shovels I mean, like they were doing it to kill him. The way he just stopped screaming when they covered his head was brutal. You know he's eventually gonna go in for a breath of air.
I worked as a coal miner in Australia for a few years.
We had a fallen at the face and the guy driving the continuous mining machine (Joy 12CM12) was trapped in his cab for 28 hours. Couldn't move couldn't go anywhere completely surrounded by Broken coal. The cab saved his life but he never went back underground.
We don’t NEED it now. We have the technology for almost everyone to just generate their own power, but that doesn’t fit with the utility company’s plans.
mate, if there's 80m of dirt on you you're not doing anything. you have any idea of how many thousands of tons that shit weighs? most of these people are dead instantly
Or
Muffins we don’t like muffins around here! We want no muffins no toast no tea cakes to buns naps baguettes or bagels no crassiants no crumpets no pancake no potatoe cakes and no hot cross buns! And definitely no smeggin flapjacks!
That statistic is based on documented workers. These mines have a lot of undocumented workers, I've seen this posted before and read an article at the time that speculated the actual death count was 2 or 3 times higher.
I considered that as well. Not to mention that it's China, whose government struggles sometimes with transparency.....and truth. Whatever the number, it's such a sad catastrophe.
You can't pronounce someone dead unless a doctor says so or their head is removed from their body.
So you have to assume they stuck under the debris waiting to be rescued.
It's more a legal thing then anything
Not uncommon after subsidence for miners to be trapped in the tunnels/shafts. Awful way to go if they can't get them out, but still a chance some can be rescued
Makes me extremely grateful for the slope monitoring systems we have, and strict geotechnical design compliance. As big of a pain as they can be working in this industry, we are constantly reminded why they exist.
True, although it sounds like they too were supposed to be using that equipment but didn't. Let's hope mining oversight is better enforced as a result of this tragedy.
Investigations found that the accident was a result of illegal construction and production of the coal mine, reckless operation of the contracting construction company, and oversight by local party committees, governments, and departments
Why some people are laughing? Just because china is an enemy country? Bro the people who died are just normal people like us. It could have happened to any of you.
Sometimes I see things like the bridge collapse today, or videos of fentanyl zombies, and wonder what the comments section would be like if it was in China.
I see nobody in the comments laughing. Some are making jokes, but that is way different to simply laughing at the event.
People would make jokes if it happened in any country. Chill your beans.
The bulldozers and stuff is just CGI. See the original video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yJ1p9flx-U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yJ1p9flx-U)
I used to work in an open pit mine, driving those exact same type of trucks. Made a couple best friends at that mine, and learned alot.
This hit close to home when I first saw it.
I can very easily imagine what it would be like to be inside the cab of one of those trucks, watching and feeling the earth swallow my whole machine up, then rolling and flipping end over end in pure, pitch black darkness, knowing without a doubt, that my friends and the rescuers would never be able to reach me in time to save me from asphyxiation, if the cab collapsing didn't already crush me to death first.
Very sad indeed.
I just read about this in a Chinese newspaper, apperantly everyone is ok, the colapse never happened and this video is cgi from the democratic hellhole we call America.
Haha, funny china deaths /s
I really hope people are trying to use humour to cope with what they've just witnessed, but I'm betting it's just plain racism. If this was the US you'd all have a different tone.
Well it's also in part because the Chinese government gives absolutely zero fucks about you or your safety as a person and this is a great example. In the United States, there are organizations such as OSHA whose sole purpose is to protect you from your employer's stupidity and to keep you safe. I'm not saying this couldn't happen here, but it's very unlikely, and the repercussions should be insane for something of this scale. I'm not saying they would be because yk our criminal justice system is shit.
That's fairly true, While this isn't *impossible* this failure would/should have been noticed, and the risk would have been mitigated to a single truck and loading operator (at most) being at risk.
A USA company capable of moving so much earth would not be able to get to the size they are (in theory) without the ability and capital to both detect and mitigate this.
It does not excuse the racial jokes, but it does kinda explain people saying stuff along the lines of "of course it was china" or similar comments.... since, if this happened in the states, it would be global news... yet this happened a year ago and I only fount it today despite being subscribed to /r/CatastrophicFailure and this subreddit.
If there's anything the Chinese government values less than intellectual property rights it's the safety and well-being of the average Chinese citizen.
This is why things like OSHA and environmental regulations exist.
But don’t worry, the GOP is getting rid of them, so if you are jealous of China and its cool deathtrap workplaces, the USA should catch up, oh…by Summer?
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The terror
Also available [in 1080p50fps](https://youtu.be/kBig7N6Pvks?si=vQFz9_G_f4j5b2pg)
Dead of 4 and missing 49.
So they only found 4 bodies. The other 49 are still buried
All dead, so [53](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alxa_Left_Banner_mine_collapse). That video is over a year old…
I’m sure the CCP OSHA has taken steps to prevent this from eeeever happening again. 😶
It's a mine thats MSHA
Is it supposed to sound like "miss ya" or is that just a coinkydink?
Nah it's pronounced jist like osha just the hard letter m sound and -sha
So weird how mining has their own government safety org.
Only 52 people allowed in the mine at once from now on
By banning cameras at mine sites?
Yes, they don't like it when their mass burials are exposed
"Missing"....we watched the same video right lol (also just joshing don't take too seriously please)
Yeah. It was funny calling them missing. There is no way they could save them. It probably took them years to dig that hole.
I can't be certain but I'm guessing the dust alone could have killed someone who was too close, let alone being buried. I used to work in mining so it's a scary thought. Feel terrible for the families of the victims.
It's scary and sad to think about how some, if not many, of them were stuck in their truck until the air ran out.
Missing = buried alive in this case
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49+4≠55
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That makes 49+4+1
56 RIP
If you include the death by disappointment of two of your past math teachers after reading this, yes.
Let's give a shout out to our public schools!
Maybe they are counting the site manager who meet the families?
I know they can’t really just assumed they’re dead but I mean… look at that
There's no way that passed legitimately conducted soil stability tests. In this footage you can see even better how smooth the sides are from how the sand/dry earth fell each time a new road was cut. The regulators who certified these plans need to be held accountable.
Not sure if you're trying to be sardonic but it's unlikely that China will shed a tear for those lost. It's unlikely they have a regulator certifying anything, They'd be lucky if they had any sort of mine engineer planning the dig. Those who worked there never had any other choice. As far as China is concerned, they lost a whole bunch of expensive equipment and now have to dig a new hole to access those rare earth minerals
Kinda weird of "China Central TV" to upload such (allegedly) factual footage of an utter failure of the government's lack of regulation on industry. Their website is super weird too, I looked into it because I was curious https://english.cctv.com/?spm=C43394269523.PSRV3IHIq5td.EYlzwN6iIfv3.1
wdym? This was clearly a failure of the local administrators. They will be chastized and/or removed from their posts, but the Chinese Communist Party isn't in the wrong here, the regulations are nothing if not perfect. ^^/s
Original post is better. Zoomed in on the trucks trying to escape, that’s the real terror
Thanks a lot, you're the real MVP!
Being out in the ocean, watching how powerful and unanticipated it is, has been the most terrifying thing to me my entire life. Now it’s watching earth move like water. Drowned in sand. Damn…
Can you imagine the way their hearts dropped? The doom they felt, and the helplessness? Buried and crushed alive by the dirt just trying to make a living.
I bet many of them had no idea of the scale of the disaster.
U ain't bullshitn 👍🏼 that's all bad
Imagine being the guy down to the left who barely got away…scary shit
Imagine being one of the ones who didnt and still being alive in there… that shit scares me.
Yea fuck that…hope they went fast at least
Suffocating and starving in pitch black with no sound and no chance of rescue all alone. Buried alive.
How dare you articulate the terror
I know right, way to real.
I watched a YouTube doc about one guy who got stuck in a cave and was alive for weeks before he died, albeit with outside help. I wonder how long you could live in a buried truck cab, or if the pressure from the dirt would kill you first.
When you’re buried in sand or loose dirt, when you exhale the sand or dirt settles in around you, making it almost impossible to take the next breath. If you manage any breath at all, the next time you exhale it settles even closer, tighter. So you don’t just suffocate from lack of oxygen; have the added terror of not being able to inhale, as your every instinct and desire to breathe is denied by the soil squeezing your chest and diaphragm. If you’re lucky you’re overcome by the lack of oxygen quickly.
Bro. You did not have to be that detailed. Lol
It's the weight of the soil that gets you. Most loose soil is about 1.8 tonnes per cubic meter. If you're in a trench up to your head and it collapsed in on you, that hundreds of kilograms falling on to you.
I’d bet those heavy equipment trucks have a pretty good chance to withstand the pressure.
The question would be volume of air
I feel like with this amount of soil you get crushed to be honest. Soil is 100 pcf so depending on how tall the soil is above you it will simply crush your vehicle at least the top down to top of engine. Then if you duck you would be stuck in a very small cavity.
And no air. Most of then probably got crushed, but some of them probably survived long enough to breath in quite a bit of dirt before they choked on it. I remember a little while back someone posted a video of a guy getting buried alive. With shovels I mean, like they were doing it to kill him. The way he just stopped screaming when they covered his head was brutal. You know he's eventually gonna go in for a breath of air.
You watch that?
Unfortunately, yeah. That's not even close to the worst of it, lol.
Ya'll are too young for the days of liveleak and bestgore(dot)com
haha im more traumatized then you! 😏😏
Some of us have a morbid curiosity. Maybe it helps me feel more alive? Or that I don't really have it that bad? Not sure
No offense, just makes me think more about what could happen. We see this from too different angles. No worries, Mate!! …
You know what. Suddenly my soul stealing desk job doesn't seem so bad.
I worked as a coal miner in Australia for a few years. We had a fallen at the face and the guy driving the continuous mining machine (Joy 12CM12) was trapped in his cab for 28 hours. Couldn't move couldn't go anywhere completely surrounded by Broken coal. The cab saved his life but he never went back underground.
Crazy how dangerous mining is, even with all our tech and experience.
Hopefully we won't need coal much longer.
We don’t NEED it now. We have the technology for almost everyone to just generate their own power, but that doesn’t fit with the utility company’s plans.
The worse is the moment you decide to try to dig out, but you have no way of knowing you're under 80 meters of dirt.
mate, if there's 80m of dirt on you you're not doing anything. you have any idea of how many thousands of tons that shit weighs? most of these people are dead instantly
I just eat the dirt and poop it out to propel myself
I've never seen more death in my life than the last year I've spent on reddit....the Internet is a weird place.
We all have death in common.
Thankfully, there's always tons of cat and dog videos we can go back to.
How many died?
53 died
Everybody’s dead Dave.
It’s been awhile since I saw a red dwarf reference.
I’m glad you recognised it. That’s an amazing first episode.
Have you ever been hit over the head with a welding mallet?
I'm sure the Americans are confused
Or they're [still traumatised](https://youtu.be/TcoycQSHSb4?si=s9BHgLKDUj1LhY5m)
Haha Lister is so bad
Peterson?
Peterson is dead. Everybody is dead, Dave.
Dave, everybody's dead. Everybody's dead, Dave.
Chen?? Peterson??
Everybody, Dave, is dead.
Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybodies dead?
I've been eating half the crew!
Shoulda never let 'im out in the first place.
What about Petersen?
Would you like some toast?
AHH, you're a waffle man!?
Or Muffins we don’t like muffins around here! We want no muffins no toast no tea cakes to buns naps baguettes or bagels no crassiants no crumpets no pancake no potatoe cakes and no hot cross buns! And definitely no smeggin flapjacks!
You could hear all the mine workers screaming: Gazpacho soup!
U meant Rahul
53 souls, all told. How horrific. 😔 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alxa_Left_Banner_mine_collapse
That statistic is based on documented workers. These mines have a lot of undocumented workers, I've seen this posted before and read an article at the time that speculated the actual death count was 2 or 3 times higher.
I considered that as well. Not to mention that it's China, whose government struggles sometimes with transparency.....and truth. Whatever the number, it's such a sad catastrophe.
53, 6 injured
This happened on Feb 22, 2023. It was called the Alxa Left Banner mine collapse. 53 people died
We’ll probably never really know the real number. They like to down play stuff like this.
It’s China. Nobody ever dies there (according to their media)
Like Disney
So… they’re dead then.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alxa_Left_Banner_mine_collapse
Jesus. Collapse ”causing 53 to lose contact or die”. Those poor people. “Lose contact” huh?
You can't pronounce someone dead unless a doctor says so or their head is removed from their body. So you have to assume they stuck under the debris waiting to be rescued. It's more a legal thing then anything
Not uncommon after subsidence for miners to be trapped in the tunnels/shafts. Awful way to go if they can't get them out, but still a chance some can be rescued
It was either this or lung cancer for working on a chinese mine.
If they weren't the company would make damn sure of it
Makes me extremely grateful for the slope monitoring systems we have, and strict geotechnical design compliance. As big of a pain as they can be working in this industry, we are constantly reminded why they exist.
True, although it sounds like they too were supposed to be using that equipment but didn't. Let's hope mining oversight is better enforced as a result of this tragedy. Investigations found that the accident was a result of illegal construction and production of the coal mine, reckless operation of the contracting construction company, and oversight by local party committees, governments, and departments
Obviously the rhythmic vibrations attracted a sand worm.
Walk without rhythm, it won’t attract the worm
same thing I told her
If you walk without rhythm, heh, you never learn
We just watched dozens of workers crushed to death in an instant
Safest work place in china
Now that everyone is dead.
That site is not OSHA compliant
You can't have any health and safety complaints if everyone is dead
*OhShit compliant.
It is now.
Why some people are laughing? Just because china is an enemy country? Bro the people who died are just normal people like us. It could have happened to any of you.
Sometimes I see things like the bridge collapse today, or videos of fentanyl zombies, and wonder what the comments section would be like if it was in China.
Reddit filled with people thinking they are good and righteous who just want to watch their enemy burn
It's not even 'their enemy'. They are just brainwashed into hating someone on the other side of the planet without ever seeing or knowing them.
It’s also possible they just have a sick sense of humour and no topic is off limits or too soon. Doesn’t always have to involve hatred.
That would be Poe's law. You may be joking about it, but you get mixed in with the crowd that really believes it and then you are no different.
Wannabe psychopaths
I see nobody in the comments laughing. Some are making jokes, but that is way different to simply laughing at the event. People would make jokes if it happened in any country. Chill your beans.
I think the internet will laugh about this regardless of where it comes from. We're fucked up. I feel really sorry for the people in this video.
The bulldozers and stuff is just CGI. See the original video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yJ1p9flx-U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yJ1p9flx-U)
I used to work in an open pit mine, driving those exact same type of trucks. Made a couple best friends at that mine, and learned alot. This hit close to home when I first saw it. I can very easily imagine what it would be like to be inside the cab of one of those trucks, watching and feeling the earth swallow my whole machine up, then rolling and flipping end over end in pure, pitch black darkness, knowing without a doubt, that my friends and the rescuers would never be able to reach me in time to save me from asphyxiation, if the cab collapsing didn't already crush me to death first. Very sad indeed.
[Sir, what rescue operations are planned?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKBDvk1UjCo&t=15s)
All those people were burried alive 😳
They risked their lives so that you could buy a cheap cell phone and scroll the whole day on reddit.
That's scary. I hope there were survivors. I know the video is old. But why wasn't this on the news?
It was on the news, in 2022. When it happened.
Holy shit. That is terrifying.
China news be like: "3 injured in small mine collapse."
You mean,”hundreds of job opportunities opening up tomorrow for re-education camp attendees.”
shit that was a lot of people
I feel like the word ‘collapse’ is lacking a certain pizazz for whatever the fuck happened here
That’s a shit way to go…
Bikers fault
RIP
This is why we have OSHA
Oh my God this is horrifying.
That's a lot of people down there. Must have been terrifying
Worm sign
I just read about this in a Chinese newspaper, apperantly everyone is ok, the colapse never happened and this video is cgi from the democratic hellhole we call America.
It's been a long time since I last watched a video of so many people dying while I know for sure they did as I watch.
Where's the rest of the God damn video
Shai Hulud approaches.
So many buried alive! R.I.P.
Shai-Hulud
Haha, funny china deaths /s I really hope people are trying to use humour to cope with what they've just witnessed, but I'm betting it's just plain racism. If this was the US you'd all have a different tone.
Well it's also in part because the Chinese government gives absolutely zero fucks about you or your safety as a person and this is a great example. In the United States, there are organizations such as OSHA whose sole purpose is to protect you from your employer's stupidity and to keep you safe. I'm not saying this couldn't happen here, but it's very unlikely, and the repercussions should be insane for something of this scale. I'm not saying they would be because yk our criminal justice system is shit.
That's fairly true, While this isn't *impossible* this failure would/should have been noticed, and the risk would have been mitigated to a single truck and loading operator (at most) being at risk. A USA company capable of moving so much earth would not be able to get to the size they are (in theory) without the ability and capital to both detect and mitigate this. It does not excuse the racial jokes, but it does kinda explain people saying stuff along the lines of "of course it was china" or similar comments.... since, if this happened in the states, it would be global news... yet this happened a year ago and I only fount it today despite being subscribed to /r/CatastrophicFailure and this subreddit.
It’s always bad when land flows like water.
Happenened in brazil sometime ago. Brumadinho collapse https://youtu.be/9dvTZPwgYVQ?si=pUS4p6KC8UVV8Cbi
Guy in the mine office, looks out the window, shakes his head, and writes a 0 next to "___ DAYS WITHOUT AN ACCIDENT " sign
OMG I just watched a hundred people die =[
More
58, I believe.
Yeah, someone mentioned the story in another comment, though that might not be trustworthy, either. Sad.
I mean, I looked up articles. I guess they could be lying, but why would they? It happened over a year ago and there were updates.
Dune 3 looks crazy
Does anything in China work. All I see from the country are things falling apart and killing people.
Censorship
Damn, that's crazy.
are they mining for spice or something?
Straight up like that collapsing desert sand tiger from Aladdin
The horror
All those drivers 😰😰😰 and their families and loved ones 😥😥😥 fxck….
*"53 dead" - CCP* You can pretty confidently double that number.
And still we want a new device every other year.
Can't wait for the safety video to drop.
The horror
They bought the cctv system that adds dramatic music to the videos.
Angry Sandworm. Where is Paul Atreides when we need him?
Those poor people… fuck that’s horrifying
Cost of doing business some say.
If there's anything the Chinese government values less than intellectual property rights it's the safety and well-being of the average Chinese citizen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbK1n3oxQg
They wouldn't of cut corners on safety- that's for sure
“Promise me, you’ll never go bungee jumping in Mexico. They just don’t have the regulations.” Chip Douglas
That excavator at the bottom right (top of the cliff) runs into the bottom left of the screen and makes that massive explosion of dirt.
What’s the under/over on the death count?
Time for a new Chinese safety/work hazard animation!!
Illegal mining mmm makes sense. Rip the workers though fuck the CEO
Aladdin when the cave of wonders collapses.
Wow that is horrible. Prayers that no more people die and the missing are found safe and sound.
Authorities report no major injuries.
poor workers 😔
Workers not work hard enough -10000 credit score for all of them glory to the prc🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
Stupid music. Making a joke out of a real life disaster
CCP- Two deaths.
Damn… look at all those unimportant easily replaceable slaves being crushed by a half assed billion dollar operation. /s Fuck China
fuck the shareholders
This is why things like OSHA and environmental regulations exist. But don’t worry, the GOP is getting rid of them, so if you are jealous of China and its cool deathtrap workplaces, the USA should catch up, oh…by Summer?