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China Accident Investigation Report No. CN-MEM-2026-03-28 2026 Physical injury Physical
Yingda (Sichuan) Lithium MVR System Secondary Separator Discharge Scalding Accident ('3-28')
Sichuan Yingda Lithium New Materials Co., Ltd. (Pengxi County Emergency Management Bureau investigation report)
Related equipment → MVR unit (mechanical vapor recompression) (mvr_unit)
1Fatalities
0Injuries
Scalding / thermal burnMechanism code OTH
Failure Mode · ISO 14224 Mapping
Damage mechanism (recorded in KB)
Scalding / thermal burnOTH
ISO functional code (as recorded)
ISO 14224:2016 functional failure code
OTH · Other
ISO OTH — Other.
1What Happened

MVR system secondary separator discharge port retained hot water/steam; high-pressure water jet angled at blockage ejected scalding fluid onto workers (non-compliant work + inadequate protection)

2Root Cause

No safe-work management system or operating procedure for secondary-separator flushing (first-time task); inadequate training (wrong risk assessment of high-temp / working-at-height); inadequate hazard screening (residual hot water, insufficient working-at-height qualification, unstable scaffolding)

3Reliability Lessons (from investigation root cause)
  • The 'Root Cause' above is the core lesson of this accident; not split further.
4Associated Failure Mechanisms (Keywords)
MVR secondary separator discharge port high-pressure water jet scalding steam non-compliant work inadequate protection
About the Failure-Mode Code (click to expand)

The recorded code OTH is an ISO 14224:2016 functional failure code (describes what the equipment failed to do). The damage mechanism (how it failed) is shown in the Mapping block above. The two are distinct dimensions in ISO 14224.

5Evidence Source (transparent)
Authority:Pengxi County Emergency Management Bureau (China industrial accident investigation system)
Official Report:www.pengxi.gov.cn ↗
Data Verification:verified_url_pengxi_gov_cn_2026-07-20
Related Failure Modes · Traceability
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Report No. CN-MEM-2026-03-28 · Data from China Emergency Management Dept. public investigation conclusions, compiled by Reliability AI, for reliability demonstration purposes only. This case is derived from public incident investigation reports for learning purposes only. AIM does not endorse or guarantee its accuracy.