“Urine Mercury Incident” sparked public concern about the lighting industry’s operating environment

Lighting and lighting companies face health and cost conflicts

"Gum bleeding, skin allergies, headaches, hair loss..." Peng Zhengjia, who works in Foshan Lighting, described the anomaly that occurred on himself. After the medical examination, he was confirmed to have exceeded the standard for urinary mercury, and he was confirmed to have exceeded the standard with other workers. And they are in Guangdong Foshan lighting energy-saving lamp production line - work with close contact with mercury.


The incident was greatly concerned once it was exposed. The Gaoming District Government of Foshan immediately organized a physical examination of nearly 600 employees who were exposed to hazardous jobs (liquid mercury) in Foshan Lighting. After that, the 590 employees of the Foshan Lighting Factory released their mercury-removing jobs, and 9 of them were suspected occupations. Sexual chronic mercury poisoning, 143 people with elevated urinary mercury.


Foshan Lighting, known as the "Chinese Light King", suddenly cast a shadow over the "urine mercury door."


"Light King" is still the case, what is the situation of other lighting companies? In the tens of thousands of enterprises in the upstream and downstream of China's lighting and lighting industry, what are the secrets that are unknown? What kind of work environment are the mechanics and general workers who are busy in the workshop all day? All of this has begun to attract the attention and worry of all sectors of society.


Experts told reporters that mercury is an indispensable raw material in the production of energy-saving lamps. Due to the development of the industrial chain, in the lighting industry, the production of lamps and the production of whole lamps are often carried out by different companies. The lamp company supplies the whole lamp company, and the whole lamp company assembles the lamp, rectifier, casing and other accessories into the final product energy-saving lamps or lamps. The application of mercury metal is in the production of lamps.


A light pipe factory owner told reporters that in the past, the production of lamps was artificially injected with mercury. Now, most companies use automatic mercury injection machines. This type of machine is not expensive, and as long as the link is well controlled, there is generally no mercury leak.


In addition, in the way of using mercury, there are currently two ways of lighting industry, one is liquid mercury and the other is solid mercury. Solid mercury can effectively reduce the safety hazards in the mercury process and improve the quality of energy-saving lamps.


However, the price of solid mercury is higher than that of liquid mercury, and the requirements for equipment are relatively high (100,000 yuan for the corresponding equipment), and the cost of lamps made of solid mercury is increased by 1-2 cents per unit. The larger the scale, the greater the cost impact.


It is not difficult to understand why the "light king" of Foshan Lighting, which is so large, is still using liquid mercury.


In addition, in the lighting industry, the pollution problem in the production of lighting accessories has also surfaced with the "urine mercury door".


Workers in the electroplating workshop of a lighting accessories factory in Guzhen said that the plating solution contained chloride and heavy metals. In the electroplating production, a large amount of chemicals such as strong acids, alkalis, salts and organic solvents are used, and a large amount of toxic and harmful gases are emitted during the operation, and the electroplating solution contains a large amount of heavy metal elements related to electroplating. The other most frequent work of lighting accessories workers is painting, and most of the paint materials are toxic to the body. If the operation or safety measures are improper, it is easy to cause poisoning of workers.


Experts say that between cost and employee health, companies should not hesitate to put employee health first, and companies that are not responsible for their employees are hard to get the trust of consumers. In addition, local governments should also strengthen supervision, strictly control the safe production environment of enterprises, and provide employees with a safe and healthy working environment.

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