土耳其钢铁厂吊车坠入电弧炉引发爆炸 17名工人死亡
当地时间11月9日上午11时46分左右，土耳其西部伊兹密尔省阿利亚阿的 HABAŞ 钢铁厂发生爆炸并起火。铸钢作业期间，一台吊运更换用锅炉的桥式吊车坠入电弧炉，损及天然气管道，熔钢飞溅引发爆炸。土耳其卫生部长 Kemal Memişoğlu 晚间确认，一名重伤者不治身亡，死亡人数升至17人，另有至少12人受伤。
死亡人数当天一路上修。伊兹密尔省政府最初公布6人死亡、14人受伤、10人被困，搜救持续至晚间；总统埃尔多安在内阁会议后公布16人死亡、13人受伤、其中2人重伤；卫生部长随后宣布重伤者中一人死亡。各方给出的受伤人数并不一致，在12至15人之间。
一名工人对法新社表示，吊车的钢索断裂，约120吨钢水坠入炉内、与水冷壁接触后引发爆炸；官方初步说法只确认吊车坠入电弧炉。HABAŞ 方面称，事故发生在一座电弧炉的计划检修期间。遇难者家属聚集在厂外与收治伤者的阿利亚阿州立医院外抗议；据法新社报道，一名遇难工人的兄弟在工厂外自焚，被在场人员送医。
司法调查由管辖阿利亚阿的 Menemen 首席检察官办公室主持，四名检察官与专家组已经介入，劳动和社会保障部派出首席监察员调查安全生产问题。已有5人被拘留，晚间增至6人。内政、劳动与卫生三位部长事发当天赶赴现场查看。
HABAŞ 钢铁厂1987年在阿利亚阿投产，年产钢约450万吨，是土耳其最大的钢铁生产商之一，其厂区同时经营港口业务。该厂事故记录不断：据劳动安全监察组织 İSİG 统计，过去十年该厂已有至少11名工人死于事故，2019年一台120吨钢包倾覆曾造成11人受伤；就在这次爆炸前三周内，厂里还接连发生两起单人死亡事故。
（来源：美联社）
Crane Falls Into Electric Arc Furnace at Turkish Steel Plant: Explosion Kills 17 Workers
An explosion and fire tore through the HABAŞ steel plant in Aliağa, İzmir Province, in western Turkey at about 11:46 a.m. local time on November 9. During casting, an overhead crane carrying a replacement boiler collapsed into an electric arc furnace, damaging a natural gas line and setting off a blast. Health Minister Kemal Memişoğlu confirmed in the evening that one of the critically injured workers had died, raising the death toll to 17, with at least 12 others injured.
The toll climbed through the day. The İzmir governor's office first reported 6 dead, 14 injured and 10 trapped, with rescue work continuing into the evening. After a cabinet meeting, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan put the toll at 16 dead and 13 injured, two of them critical; the health minister then announced that one of the critical patients had died. Injury counts varied between officials, ranging from 12 to 15.
A worker told Agence France-Presse that the crane's rope snapped and about 120 tonnes of molten steel fell into the furnace, where contact with water-cooled panels set off a hydrogen explosion; official accounts confirmed only that a crane fell into the furnace. HABAŞ said the accident occurred during scheduled maintenance on one of its arc furnaces. Relatives gathered outside the plant and at Aliağa State Hospital in protest; AFP reported that the brother of one of the dead workers set himself alight outside the factory and was taken to hospital by bystanders.
The Menemen Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, which covers Aliağa, assigned four prosecutors and an expert panel to the judicial investigation, and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security appointed a chief inspector to examine workplace safety. Five people were detained in connection with the blast, six by that evening. The interior, labour and health ministers all travelled to the site.
The HABAŞ works, which began operating in 1987 and produces about 4.5 million tonnes of steel a year, is one of Turkey's largest steelmakers. The plant has a long record of fatal accidents: the labour-safety watchdog İSİG counts at least 11 worker deaths there over the past decade, a 120-tonne ladle spill injured 11 workers in 2019, and two workers died in separate incidents at the plant in the three weeks before this explosion.
(Source: Associated Press)
来源：美联社
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图片来源：图：钢铁厂高炉资料图（英国 Scunthorpe 钢铁厂）。照片：Gareth James 摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Blast furnaces at a steelworks (file photo: Scunthorpe Steelworks, UK). Photo by Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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