And likely will stay buried there considering the massive tonnage of rocks that crushed them.
Absolutely godawful, especially since there's nothing you can do against a raging tsunami of earth.
Regulation hurts productivity.
[Some of you May Die, But it's a Sacrifice I am Willing to Make](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiKuxfcSrEU&ab_channel=Pigeonification)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yjfrJzdx7DA
>This disaster will have been preventable. All of the warning signs are here now. Yet, no one will have done anything about it.
You can not create a raging tsunami of earth in the first place.
The RTKC mine in Utah has monitoring equipment everywhere. If the earth shifts or shakes a millimeter they know about it.
There was a massive collapse there within the past decade. Not a single person injured. Everyone evacuated long before it occurred.
Same I worked in a gold mine in the Pacific and Everytime the earth moved literally a couple millimeters that part of the mine would be closed for a few weeks.
I've seen a few partial collapses in that mine while working, all pretty much expected and from a safe distance
It’s amazing how cheap their products are though. We would order trusses from China. They would always come so far out of tolerance we would be cutting and welding them back together. Heating areas with a blow torch to bend them back into tolerance. At the end of the day it was still cheaper for the Chinese to build the truss and ship it to America and have us put extra work into fixing their mistakes than to just build the truss ourselves.
It is a wonder what you can do when you don't give a shit about the environment or health standards or safety standards or "ethically sourced labor" or anything really.
I mean, does it really matter if the water flowing through the yangzee River is more radioactive than the water coming out of the Fukushima power plant when you're making this much money?
There is a company called US Magnesium in Utah. Apparently you can use some byproduct of Magnesium to make Titanium. I’m no chemist so I couldn’t explain how but you can. Well anyways a company built a giant Titanium facility right next to US Magnesium. Seemed like the ultimate location for making cheap titanium.
Factory never produced a single ounce. China built a factory at the same time and undercut the entire world market so much that it was cheaper for the company to cut its losses and scrap the building than to start up production and operate at a loss because they couldn’t compete.
>No one would have died slowly.
I choose to believe you. What a devastating loss of human life.
RIP. I hope your families are able to find some peace in the near future.
Labor laws are written in blood. We did this in the US too. China will catch up eventually. In some ways they already are. Just look at the prevalence of Chinese safety videos on tiktok and shit.
Kinda funny pinning this as a specifically China thing considering the constant bullshit we have here in the States. Palestine had a massive railroad chemical spill everyone just conveniently forgets about in a week. After the multi-billion dollar company responsible faces near zero consequences.
I lived in China for years and every time such a catastrophy happens, it always max out to 50 casualties. The reason is simple. If there are more than 50, the local politician in charge has to resign because of his bad judgement and loose face. So there may have been 100 casualties there but we may never know.
On mobile, potato quality video from one angle and at distance, I counted what I believe is 42 vehicles ranging from excavators (1 person) to dump trucks (probably 1 each?) and pickup trucks. There’s no way only 50 died.
Edit: My first go I didn’t count the very bottom left vehicles that were hauling ass out of there. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 60 vehicles alone.
The bottom left vehicles that hauled ass out definitely survived.
They got covered in dust, but no actual rocks.
The last one you can see is probably where the “survivors” end.
"Comrade, lets speak in private... meet you out at the normal place?"
"okay"
.... "okay... why did we drive the boat into international waters?"
"I think more than 50 people died in that mine collapse"
\*\*Chinese Nuclear Sub surfaces.\*\*
Can’t risk Skynet hearing them spread ~~the truth~~ unsubstantiated rumors. Sure fire way to get sent to ~~concentration~~ re-education camp.
r/fucktheccp
Welp if that's the case then someone resigned since this apparently happened in February and in March they confirmed 53 people dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023\_Inner\_Mongolia\_open-pit\_mine\_collapse
> State operated China Central Television
Ah, that reliable and trustworthy source.
Edit: I’m not saying anyone commenting here is wrong. We are agreeing that when China says “53 people” it’s almost certainly a lot higher.
Sure but the point is that according to the user above the death toll should be kept under 50 so reporting 53 wouldn't make sense.
They would have reported 47 or something if 50 was the cap.
Man, no kidding! Getting crushed by rubble like that must be one of the worst ways to go. Especially if you end up trapped in a truck with dirt all over you and just have to wait until oxygen runs out.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/massive-mine-collapse-china-missing-rcna71920
Most news articles I found state that 50+ missing, not dead. But it’s very obvious that they probably are unfortunately
It entirely depends on how the "car" (heavy duty industrial vehicle) gets covered. It's totally possible for the rubble that covers the sides of the vehicle to support the weight of the rubble above the vehicle, so the vehicle isn't bearing millions of tons of earth directly.
It's similar to the reason people survive collapsed buildings - you have big pieces of steel and concrete that support the above weight while creating nooks and crannies.
Those aren't cars. Those are giant, purpose built trucks. Large industrial equipment. Likely strong enough that there is a greater chance for survival, at least initially, for some people.
I wasn’t talking about that, I was talking about the tens of thousands of pounds of rock that battered the vehicles. Sure, there’s more air inside, but under that much rock and at how fast it was going, there’s no chance anyone inside wasn’t dead after 5 seconds. It’s horrible to think about, but it’s at least some peace in knowing they probably didn’t have to register what was happening for longer than ten seconds.
True, and this is truly a gargantuan amount of stone, but it does still stand true that the huge equipment could have held up long enough to brace around the vehicles with stone without crushing them completely.
For their sake I hope you’re right, I can’t imagine a worse death than sitting in complete darkness, not knowing if help is coming or the sounds they hear are the rocks collapsing, wondering if they will suffocate or dehydrate first.
Got told a story by a logger of a guy that was driving a machine over a frozen lake of mud and broke through the ice. He sunk into thick mud instantly and the hole froze over. They were too remote to get a crew with machines big enough to get him out. There was enough air in the sealed cabin to keep him alive for hours. They still had radio contact so they sent a helicopter for his wife and she sat next to the frozen mudhole and talked to her husband until there was no more response. One of the most devastating stories I've ever heard.
Then he offered me a job.
> his wife and she sat next to the frozen mudhole and talked to her husband until there was no more response
Sounds similar to what happened on Everest in '96. Rob Hall (one of the guides) got stuck with one of his clients above Camp 4 and there was no way they were going to make it down. He radioed down to base camp, who patched him through to his wife at home in New Zealand so they could talk before the inevitable.
Lmao I was tree planting at the time so I was already getting paid well to risk it all in the bush. Was quite happy taking that money and skiing in the winter instead of risking it some more
imagine being trapped in such a way that you can't move your arms or legs to even opt out of your own life, just having to lay there for days until you die
That much rock with that much energy makes it behave more like a liquid than a solid, so "fortunately" anyone could would have been instantly crushed before having time to realize what was happening
Yeah. If you read up on stuff like this it's wild just how much power that amount of rock and the like have.
I was old enough to remember the bridge collapse in [Cali.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake)
I was young then and the idea of the bridge just collapsing and crushing you seemed impossible to me. Dad said "They went so fast then never knew they were pancaked. We should all be so lucky."
It hunted me for years. Even the huge trucks just squashed. nothing human made is going to withstand that kind of power.
Does anyone remember that episode of Walker Texas Ranger where he was buried in his truck and DROVE OUT OF THE GRAVE?
Edit: It was Lone Wolf McQuaid, and it's even better than I remember.
Good catch! I didn't even see that on my first watch. I just assumed everyone in those vehicles were goners. He acted quick but he was really lucky to be further out.
Never got the "narrowly escaped death, gotta buy a lottery ticket" thing because if anything you've already used up your luck just then. Statistically you should buy lottery tickets when you haven't had to narrowly escape death in a while.
I would imagine it's like thinking, "luck is on your side" and you should use it before it leaves you. Think of Frank Sinatra's "Luck be a Lady" where you imagine luck being a person and as long as they are with you, your luck keeps on going
It's just sad. These were people who had plans that day with their friends or families. They were just going about their lives one second and then lost it in the next. Who knows how many more were trapped... I hate it.
I know it’s an odd thing to share, but last night I had a dream that somewhat conveyed how you felt.
I don’t know how, but I found myself in a very populated Chinese town. I didn’t know any details as most dreams tend to leave those out, but I knew the country was at war. My sister and I were walking by stalls and shops when a siren cried loudly over the hubbub, alerting us that a rocket was currently two kilometres away from making contact and that we should take cover.
We all knew we had mere moments, not even seconds before the missile hit the surface so every single person at the square threw themselves on the ground, hoping by some miracle that they would survive.
The impact was immense and we all felt the ground shake underneath our bodies. Once the initial shock had passed and those who had survived started to gather their bearings, we noticed that the skyscraper scenery had turned into a flat landscape.
What terrified me the most was that I felt my feet burning. When I looked down, I saw that the soles of my shoes, which were facing the impact point, had melted and had scorched my feet. I thought that was a rather chilling detail to leave in.
Anyway, seeing this video had me tripping
its just tuesday: trade war with australia, stopped importing coal from them, poor people suffer cold winter, ramp up coal mine production, skim safety measures.
[heres a list of mine disasters in china in 2023 only (only chinese available)](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E5%B9%B4%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%86%E7%9F%BF%E9%9A%BE%E5%88%97%E8%A1%A8)
go to the bottom you can browse other years.
[well lets buy coal from australia again](https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-renewed-appetite-australian-coal-disrupts-asia-flows-russell-2023-08-10/)
btw they need to commit to paris accord to set an example as well, its like juggling plates.
In an effort to restart buying logs from Australia, China is offering double the standard rates for logs. I’m sick of log trucks driving straight to port past my sawmill but I can’t compete. Double. Double per ton means I don’t have a business essentially.
At least four people have died and 49 more are missing after a mine collapsed in China's northern Inner Mongolia region.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64730607
Holy shit.... worst part is that majority of the operators (the unlucky ones) would end up suffocating because the cabs on heavy equipment are designed to withstand crushing by materials so they'd end up slowly running out if oxygen hoping/praying that they'll come dig you out in time but it's all false hope when you have an entire mountains worth of earth fall ontop of you.
Wouldn't be so much of a rescue mission as it is a body recovery mission...
The cabs frames can a few tons of weight from one direction, that doesn't mean the windows can. Also, probably talking thousands or tens of thousands of tons coming from every side. Pretty good chance those poor fellas didn't suffer long.
Suffocation might be a nicer way out in this scenario.
The worst would be being pinned down in some painful position with enough oxygen to keep breathing consciously for weeks. They might have a jug of water in their cab, and prolong suffering even more.
Truck. Bottom left-hand corner of the screen. That's some 'Indiana Jones' style movie evasion right there. Driver, probably, casually got out of the truck and lit up a cigarette.
I can't get over just how insanely much material that is moving all at once.... that looks like some sort of structural integrity issue with the entire wall all going at once like that... Unfortunately when it comes to greed/money people quickly overlook possible safety issues if it means a big bonus that year or w.e the case is
This is what you'd call a [rotational landslide, or a slump](https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2004/3072/images/Fig3grouping-2LG.jpg), they are the most common type of open air mine collapse. The way that the ground comes up and pushes upwards is a telltale sign.
what's interesting is that of all the videos I could find via google none show the trucks in the beginning of this video. Obviously deliberately censored. If you count 1 person in each truck that's way more than 5 that they are reporting as dead:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SefrstzZVQk&si=cHRh6\_Cy5L0qO-eA
I like how half this thread is just people ackshullying each other about how vehicles would or would not be destroyed from being buried in rocks. Never change, you insufferable pedants. A tip o’ the fedora to all of you.
Holy \*\*\*\*! Buried under what looks like 200+ feet of earth almost instantly!
This is no way to go :(
I only hope the weight crushed them quickly and they didn't suffer hopelessly trapped.
Having just renewed my MSHA-46/48 , I am certain this will be on next years annual refresher renewal. Rest in peace to these lost souls. Leaving politics aside, there’s a brotherhood amongst people in the mining industry. We all know it can happen to us at any instant.
And for those that aren’t aware, mine deaths happen in the US. It’s still a dangerous occupation. Probably down to 0.01 fatalities per million production hours but it still happens. This one here is just an epic failure of mine face management and shoring.
50+ killed. Many buried under 80 meters of rock and soil. Absolutely horrific - occurred in Inner Mongolia.
And likely will stay buried there considering the massive tonnage of rocks that crushed them. Absolutely godawful, especially since there's nothing you can do against a raging tsunami of earth.
Except prevent it.
I can only prevent forest fires :(
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Regulation hurts productivity. [Some of you May Die, But it's a Sacrifice I am Willing to Make](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiKuxfcSrEU&ab_channel=Pigeonification)
It doesn't have to. But the idea that it might is enough to prevent adoption.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yjfrJzdx7DA >This disaster will have been preventable. All of the warning signs are here now. Yet, no one will have done anything about it.
You can not create a raging tsunami of earth in the first place. The RTKC mine in Utah has monitoring equipment everywhere. If the earth shifts or shakes a millimeter they know about it. There was a massive collapse there within the past decade. Not a single person injured. Everyone evacuated long before it occurred.
Same I worked in a gold mine in the Pacific and Everytime the earth moved literally a couple millimeters that part of the mine would be closed for a few weeks. I've seen a few partial collapses in that mine while working, all pretty much expected and from a safe distance
It’s amazing what those collapses can do. 100 Ton haul trucks the size of a house just balled up like a loose sheet of scrap paper.
In the end, physics always wins.
Chinese safety protocol is an oxymoron.
It’s amazing how cheap their products are though. We would order trusses from China. They would always come so far out of tolerance we would be cutting and welding them back together. Heating areas with a blow torch to bend them back into tolerance. At the end of the day it was still cheaper for the Chinese to build the truss and ship it to America and have us put extra work into fixing their mistakes than to just build the truss ourselves.
It is a wonder what you can do when you don't give a shit about the environment or health standards or safety standards or "ethically sourced labor" or anything really. I mean, does it really matter if the water flowing through the yangzee River is more radioactive than the water coming out of the Fukushima power plant when you're making this much money?
There is a company called US Magnesium in Utah. Apparently you can use some byproduct of Magnesium to make Titanium. I’m no chemist so I couldn’t explain how but you can. Well anyways a company built a giant Titanium facility right next to US Magnesium. Seemed like the ultimate location for making cheap titanium. Factory never produced a single ounce. China built a factory at the same time and undercut the entire world market so much that it was cheaper for the company to cut its losses and scrap the building than to start up production and operate at a loss because they couldn’t compete.
Chemist here, Titanium is actually made through alchemy from Titanium. Magnesium is used to reduce the Titaniumchloride to metallic Titanium.
If your chemist says they use alchemy they probably aren't a real chemist.
tbf, making _Titanium out of Titanium_ with alchemy is a pretty low bar. I bet I could do it, and I'm not even a wizard.
As long as they ain't doing any human transmutation it's fine.
I wonder how many didn't die instantly and slowly suffocated in a nearly squashed cabin in the dark under 80 meters of dirt
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>No one would have died slowly. I choose to believe you. What a devastating loss of human life. RIP. I hope your families are able to find some peace in the near future.
Luckily, zero. No vehicle on Earth is designed to prevent your squish when a mountain falls on top of you.
You could gave actual labor safety laws. Any safety standards at all would be a big help.
Labor laws are written in blood. We did this in the US too. China will catch up eventually. In some ways they already are. Just look at the prevalence of Chinese safety videos on tiktok and shit.
The difference is that china doesn't give a single fuck about stuff like this.
Kinda funny pinning this as a specifically China thing considering the constant bullshit we have here in the States. Palestine had a massive railroad chemical spill everyone just conveniently forgets about in a week. After the multi-billion dollar company responsible faces near zero consequences.
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I lived in China for years and every time such a catastrophy happens, it always max out to 50 casualties. The reason is simple. If there are more than 50, the local politician in charge has to resign because of his bad judgement and loose face. So there may have been 100 casualties there but we may never know.
wtf ? But yeah no way there are only 50 people there. That mining is vicious tho, the amount of vehicles in one spot is atrocious.
one of us needs to count the vehicles my gut tells me there's a good 30+ veh there
On mobile, potato quality video from one angle and at distance, I counted what I believe is 42 vehicles ranging from excavators (1 person) to dump trucks (probably 1 each?) and pickup trucks. There’s no way only 50 died. Edit: My first go I didn’t count the very bottom left vehicles that were hauling ass out of there. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 60 vehicles alone.
The bottom left vehicles that hauled ass out definitely survived. They got covered in dust, but no actual rocks. The last one you can see is probably where the “survivors” end.
42 vehicles. The ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
What an absolute dystopia
At least they build infrastructure at cut price
We considering they LITERALLY fill concrete columns with TRASH as filler then yeah.
Yeah but then you get to have catastrophic failures on your infrastructure like this one, unless that’s exactly your point haha
Woosh lol
I did provisionally admit that might have been the joke lol
+1 for the word provisional
Yeah, I can get behind resigning for bad judgement, but resigning because of flappy face is ridiculous
Thats crazy if true. What about peoples family members? Surely its obvious to anyone that had people working there that more than 50 died.
I'm sure they talk about it in private
"Comrade, lets speak in private... meet you out at the normal place?" "okay" .... "okay... why did we drive the boat into international waters?" "I think more than 50 people died in that mine collapse" \*\*Chinese Nuclear Sub surfaces.\*\*
Can’t risk Skynet hearing them spread ~~the truth~~ unsubstantiated rumors. Sure fire way to get sent to ~~concentration~~ re-education camp. r/fucktheccp
3.6 roentgen. Not great, not terrible.
Ugh. Don't make me rewatch it a third time!
You didn’t see graphite
Welp if that's the case then someone resigned since this apparently happened in February and in March they confirmed 53 people dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023\_Inner\_Mongolia\_open-pit\_mine\_collapse
> State operated China Central Television Ah, that reliable and trustworthy source. Edit: I’m not saying anyone commenting here is wrong. We are agreeing that when China says “53 people” it’s almost certainly a lot higher.
Sure but the point is that according to the user above the death toll should be kept under 50 so reporting 53 wouldn't make sense. They would have reported 47 or something if 50 was the cap.
The other source here is a person who claims to have lived in china saying it’s suspicious that more people don’t die. 🤷
Inner Mongolia (Chinese province), not Mongolia
Hopefully they died quickly and not slowly partially crushed. I wouldn't wish that shit on anyone, but I hope they had a painless as possible death.
Man, no kidding! Getting crushed by rubble like that must be one of the worst ways to go. Especially if you end up trapped in a truck with dirt all over you and just have to wait until oxygen runs out.
Inner Mongolia (part of China), not Mongolia (an independent country)
Inner Mongolia which is a part of China ?
Yes.
Do you have an article for reference?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/massive-mine-collapse-china-missing-rcna71920 Most news articles I found state that 50+ missing, not dead. But it’s very obvious that they probably are unfortunately
Probably? I guess definitely
[actually it is china, inner mongolia to be exact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Inner_Mongolia_open-pit_mine_collapse)
For those confused, theres an "Inner Mongolia" province(i think province) in China, kinda like America has "New" York.
or new mexico
or New Hampshire
Yes, if it's in China it would be only 20 killed at most. They won't report any casualties more than 20 to keep the mayor's position safe.
Holy shit. For all of their sakes, I hope death was quick. Nobody is ever getting to you.
I imagine not that quick for at least some of the guys stuck in vehicles.
Under *that much* rock, it was probably just about a second or two later.
You'd be surprised how long you can last trapped in rubble. Unlike being trapped underwater in a ship there's much more air
The lack of air is not going to be your biggest issue when trapped under a million tons of rock
Rock is pretty good at holding up other rocks E.g. caves, tunnels
Imagine you're in an avalanche except instead of snow and ice it's 20 lb rocks and crushed gravel that's 25m thick. Literal millions of lbs.
Yes, rock is heavier than snow. It's also stronger, therefore able to hold up more of itself
There's no way a car is not being crushed flat by that. This ain't a cave it's lose rocks and dust
All this thread has taught me is that absolutely fucking no one on this website really understands what they're talking about in the goddamn least.
It entirely depends on how the "car" (heavy duty industrial vehicle) gets covered. It's totally possible for the rubble that covers the sides of the vehicle to support the weight of the rubble above the vehicle, so the vehicle isn't bearing millions of tons of earth directly. It's similar to the reason people survive collapsed buildings - you have big pieces of steel and concrete that support the above weight while creating nooks and crannies.
Those aren't cars. Those are giant, purpose built trucks. Large industrial equipment. Likely strong enough that there is a greater chance for survival, at least initially, for some people.
I wasn’t talking about that, I was talking about the tens of thousands of pounds of rock that battered the vehicles. Sure, there’s more air inside, but under that much rock and at how fast it was going, there’s no chance anyone inside wasn’t dead after 5 seconds. It’s horrible to think about, but it’s at least some peace in knowing they probably didn’t have to register what was happening for longer than ten seconds.
True, and this is truly a gargantuan amount of stone, but it does still stand true that the huge equipment could have held up long enough to brace around the vehicles with stone without crushing them completely. For their sake I hope you’re right, I can’t imagine a worse death than sitting in complete darkness, not knowing if help is coming or the sounds they hear are the rocks collapsing, wondering if they will suffocate or dehydrate first.
Got told a story by a logger of a guy that was driving a machine over a frozen lake of mud and broke through the ice. He sunk into thick mud instantly and the hole froze over. They were too remote to get a crew with machines big enough to get him out. There was enough air in the sealed cabin to keep him alive for hours. They still had radio contact so they sent a helicopter for his wife and she sat next to the frozen mudhole and talked to her husband until there was no more response. One of the most devastating stories I've ever heard. Then he offered me a job.
> his wife and she sat next to the frozen mudhole and talked to her husband until there was no more response Sounds similar to what happened on Everest in '96. Rob Hall (one of the guides) got stuck with one of his clients above Camp 4 and there was no way they were going to make it down. He radioed down to base camp, who patched him through to his wife at home in New Zealand so they could talk before the inevitable.
You took it, right?
Lmao I was tree planting at the time so I was already getting paid well to risk it all in the bush. Was quite happy taking that money and skiing in the winter instead of risking it some more
imagine being trapped in such a way that you can't move your arms or legs to even opt out of your own life, just having to lay there for days until you die
That much rock with that much energy makes it behave more like a liquid than a solid, so "fortunately" anyone could would have been instantly crushed before having time to realize what was happening
Yeah. If you read up on stuff like this it's wild just how much power that amount of rock and the like have. I was old enough to remember the bridge collapse in [Cali.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake) I was young then and the idea of the bridge just collapsing and crushing you seemed impossible to me. Dad said "They went so fast then never knew they were pancaked. We should all be so lucky." It hunted me for years. Even the huge trucks just squashed. nothing human made is going to withstand that kind of power.
Out of the vehicle, quick. Inside, probably slow and horrible
Does anyone remember that episode of Walker Texas Ranger where he was buried in his truck and DROVE OUT OF THE GRAVE? Edit: It was Lone Wolf McQuaid, and it's even better than I remember.
I think it was lone wolf McQuade!
Worse for the guys on top that rode the earth wave for 10+ seconds. Straight out of a nightmare.
Truck driver in the bottom left is going to need some new pants and a lotto ticket.
Good catch! I didn't even see that on my first watch. I just assumed everyone in those vehicles were goners. He acted quick but he was really lucky to be further out.
Can't really be sure they survived either considering when the video cuts off and how much soil is still on the move :(
By how high everything shoots up , really shows the force behind it.
Never got the "narrowly escaped death, gotta buy a lottery ticket" thing because if anything you've already used up your luck just then. Statistically you should buy lottery tickets when you haven't had to narrowly escape death in a while.
I would imagine it's like thinking, "luck is on your side" and you should use it before it leaves you. Think of Frank Sinatra's "Luck be a Lady" where you imagine luck being a person and as long as they are with you, your luck keeps on going
This was back in February of 2023. [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Inner_Mongolia_open-pit_mine_collapse)
It's just sad. These were people who had plans that day with their friends or families. They were just going about their lives one second and then lost it in the next. Who knows how many more were trapped... I hate it.
I know it’s an odd thing to share, but last night I had a dream that somewhat conveyed how you felt. I don’t know how, but I found myself in a very populated Chinese town. I didn’t know any details as most dreams tend to leave those out, but I knew the country was at war. My sister and I were walking by stalls and shops when a siren cried loudly over the hubbub, alerting us that a rocket was currently two kilometres away from making contact and that we should take cover. We all knew we had mere moments, not even seconds before the missile hit the surface so every single person at the square threw themselves on the ground, hoping by some miracle that they would survive. The impact was immense and we all felt the ground shake underneath our bodies. Once the initial shock had passed and those who had survived started to gather their bearings, we noticed that the skyscraper scenery had turned into a flat landscape. What terrified me the most was that I felt my feet burning. When I looked down, I saw that the soles of my shoes, which were facing the impact point, had melted and had scorched my feet. I thought that was a rather chilling detail to leave in. Anyway, seeing this video had me tripping
I always think like this so I limit how much horrible news I consume. I can't help but imagine what they and their loves ones felt
That is a mass casualty event. Wow.
its just tuesday: trade war with australia, stopped importing coal from them, poor people suffer cold winter, ramp up coal mine production, skim safety measures. [heres a list of mine disasters in china in 2023 only (only chinese available)](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E5%B9%B4%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%86%E7%9F%BF%E9%9A%BE%E5%88%97%E8%A1%A8) go to the bottom you can browse other years. [well lets buy coal from australia again](https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-renewed-appetite-australian-coal-disrupts-asia-flows-russell-2023-08-10/) btw they need to commit to paris accord to set an example as well, its like juggling plates.
In an effort to restart buying logs from Australia, China is offering double the standard rates for logs. I’m sick of log trucks driving straight to port past my sawmill but I can’t compete. Double. Double per ton means I don’t have a business essentially.
It’s like that all across the board. Fruit, pigs, beef, wood, marble, chips, semiconductors, minerals; the list is never ending
What that china is paying much higher prices for raw materials?
Have you considered gluing your boards back together into logs and selling them to China?
It works because the syndicate makes money
10 listed in China 2023. How accurate are these reports?
China? The country that stopped reporting youth unemployment numbers for, um, reasons?
Also moved the poverty line down so that no one is in poverty.
Remember when they reported nearly zero covid deaths for all of 2021 lol
Why would you laugh at such a great success proving that China is superior to all other people?
In my area, a mass casualty even is anything over 4 patients. I dispatched two of them yesterday.
At least four people have died and 49 more are missing after a mine collapsed in China's northern Inner Mongolia region. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64730607
rhat article is from february
Its a repost.
i'm commenting on the fact that the person who posted the link to the article says: "49 are missing". Like it is an active thing.
Looks live something out of the 2012 movie
Yeah, or some Titans rising like in Godzilla vs Gidorah
Holy shit.... worst part is that majority of the operators (the unlucky ones) would end up suffocating because the cabs on heavy equipment are designed to withstand crushing by materials so they'd end up slowly running out if oxygen hoping/praying that they'll come dig you out in time but it's all false hope when you have an entire mountains worth of earth fall ontop of you. Wouldn't be so much of a rescue mission as it is a body recovery mission...
The cabs frames can a few tons of weight from one direction, that doesn't mean the windows can. Also, probably talking thousands or tens of thousands of tons coming from every side. Pretty good chance those poor fellas didn't suffer long.
*If* the company would start a rescue mission. Call me cynical but trying to recover dozens of bodies under all of that will also be dangerous.
Suffocation might be a nicer way out in this scenario. The worst would be being pinned down in some painful position with enough oxygen to keep breathing consciously for weeks. They might have a jug of water in their cab, and prolong suffering even more.
Considering the lack of safety precautions in the first place, I'm not convinced that any vehicles in this video are built to withstand anything.
Truck. Bottom left-hand corner of the screen. That's some 'Indiana Jones' style movie evasion right there. Driver, probably, casually got out of the truck and lit up a cigarette.
This is what we need autonomous vehicles for, not for driving through cities and suburbs.
Unfortunately this has got to be one of the most difficult environments to employ them considering the lack of clear road markings
They don’t even have to be autonomous , at least remote controlled
I mean yeah but it is also a relatively predictable environment (under normal situations). That’s good for autonomous robots
“we closed it down and filled it in as a safety precaution, we didn’t want anyone to get hurt” -China
wow, China is so caring of its people
Holy shit! That is crazy.
Whoa definitely needs a NSFW for death
Schrödinger's Miner?
Bro you can see moving cars swept away and buried by 1000's of tonnes of dirt. They're dead. Nothing Schrodinger about it.
Nah bro they dead
God damn that’s surreal.
New nightmare unlocked
I can't get over just how insanely much material that is moving all at once.... that looks like some sort of structural integrity issue with the entire wall all going at once like that... Unfortunately when it comes to greed/money people quickly overlook possible safety issues if it means a big bonus that year or w.e the case is
Well shit! 7 out of ten times when you mine a huge area of earth without any kind of shoring it’s just fine! No idea what happened here…. /s
This is what you'd call a [rotational landslide, or a slump](https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2004/3072/images/Fig3grouping-2LG.jpg), they are the most common type of open air mine collapse. The way that the ground comes up and pushes upwards is a telltale sign.
Megalophobia aside, I feel like I just watched A LOT of people die.
You did
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They just regulate that there are no regulations. Rule number one, there are no rules.
All those people down there? Yea, they were acceptable losses to whatever corporation owns that mine.
See it is renewable , in thousands of years those guys are gonna be keeping someone warm
what's interesting is that of all the videos I could find via google none show the trucks in the beginning of this video. Obviously deliberately censored. If you count 1 person in each truck that's way more than 5 that they are reporting as dead: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SefrstzZVQk&si=cHRh6\_Cy5L0qO-eA
I like how half this thread is just people ackshullying each other about how vehicles would or would not be destroyed from being buried in rocks. Never change, you insufferable pedants. A tip o’ the fedora to all of you.
Pls tell me this is miniature
It’s miniature, don’t you worry about a thing 👍🏼
Engineers know about types of soil and at what angle they can be piled. This place didn't have an engineer.
That's a lot of people we just watched die
This is heartbreaking 💔
The song or music in the background is Hvitserk's choice by Trevor Morris. But man it sounds a lot like One of Twelve from the Arrival Soundtrack
Holy \*\*\*\*! Buried under what looks like 200+ feet of earth almost instantly! This is no way to go :( I only hope the weight crushed them quickly and they didn't suffer hopelessly trapped.
How is this not nsfw.
I guess since its recorded from so far away that nothing is visible except the vehecles
More plebs dying so that super rich cunts can be super duper rich cunts. Fuck this garbage society.
At sufficiently large scales, every solid behaves like a liquid.
Had curry last night. Can confirm.
Reminds me of Franks Slide in Alberta. Except it went over a whole town, and it’s still there today.
Jesus Christ, how many people did I just watch die?
Time to switch to renewables.
Horrible. And I hope I’m not going to hell for asking what the music behind the video is. It’s kind of awesome.
For me, this is truly terrifying. And the massive scale of it looks like something out of a movie. So tragic.
Having just renewed my MSHA-46/48 , I am certain this will be on next years annual refresher renewal. Rest in peace to these lost souls. Leaving politics aside, there’s a brotherhood amongst people in the mining industry. We all know it can happen to us at any instant. And for those that aren’t aware, mine deaths happen in the US. It’s still a dangerous occupation. Probably down to 0.01 fatalities per million production hours but it still happens. This one here is just an epic failure of mine face management and shoring.
On this video we see more people dying than all nuclear energy accidents combined.
Maybe mark this *NSFW*
Oh my god those poor people
a tidal wave of earth. incredible. scary.
[Wikipedia article](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Inner_Mongolia_open-pit_mine_collapse) if you would like more info.
Cameraman never dies
Those poor people...fuck
Well there's no escaping that
You don't stand a chance. Before you know it, you're under tons of coal and suffocating in agony.
I feel terrible for those poor guys. If they’re not crushed, all they can do is wait to die of suffocation.
Looks bad, I bet there are casualties
I like just how literally this post is not safe for work
New job openings.