5月22日，山西柳神峪煤矿的瓦斯爆炸造成82名工人死亡、128人受伤、2人失踪，是中国自2009年以来最严重的矿难；救援因隐蔽巷道、遗漏巷道的地图、非法分包商和100多名没有定位跟踪器的矿工而受阻。

国家媒体称，该矿使用“阴阳”图纸来掩盖非法、未记录和未纳税的生产，且在爆炸时井下247名矿工中只有124人登记，登记率为50.2%；尽管它是爆炸风险更高的“高瓦斯矿井”，隐蔽巷道中却没有安装瓦斯监测器。

这是一月内第二起致命工业灾难，此前5月4日湖南浏阳一家烟花厂爆炸造成37人死亡，促使湖南在5月27日打击非法烟花生产；更广泛地看，山西2008年一次矿难造成277人死亡，而全国矿业死亡人数从2000年的近6,000人降至去年的约250人，下降约95.8%，但每百万吨煤约0.05人的死亡率仍高于美国或澳大利亚。

On May 22, a gas explosion at Shanxi’s Liushenyu coalmine killed 82 workers, injured 128 and left 2 missing, China’s worst mining accident since 2009; rescue was hindered by hidden tunnels, maps omitting tunnels, illegal subcontractors and more than 100 miners without location trackers.

State media said the mine used “yin-yang” blueprints to conceal illegal, unrecorded and untaxed production, and only 124 of 247 miners underground at the time of the blast were registered, a 50.2% registration rate; despite being a higher-risk “high-gas mine”, hidden tunnels had no gas monitors installed.

This was the second deadly industrial disaster in a month, after a May 4 explosion at a fireworks factory in Liuyang, Hunan killed 37 and prompted Hunan to target illegal fireworks production on May 27; more broadly, Shanxi had a 277-death mining accident in 2008, while national mining deaths fell from nearly 6,000 in 2000 to about 250 last year, a drop of roughly 95.8%, though the rate of about 0.05 deaths per million tonnes of coal remains higher than in America or Australia.

Source: A coalmine explosion lays bare China’s two-speed economy

Subtitle: As its industries of the future take off, old ones still flout basic safety procedures

Dateline: 5月 28, 2026 03:42 上午 | Beijing