The conveyor belt sent piles of pebbles into the machine and then rolled it into fine stones for construction. No one knew that it contained an old shell. Thanks to the metal detector, the alarm is given in time. This thrilling scene took place on the evening of January 28 in a company in Hongqiao Town, Taixing City.
The company is named Runjin Building Materials Co., Ltd. and it is located at a terminal on the riverside. Yesterday morning, the reporter came to the scene and Liu Shaohua, the person in charge of the company, introduced the discovery. At 5pm on the same day, the company's operatives were producing, and piles of pebbles were fed into the machine through a conveyor belt. The other end of the machine spewed fine stones.
An old artillery shell found in a heap of pebbles.
An old artillery shell found in a heap of pebbles.
“There is absolutely no metal allowed inside the machine at the time of production.†Liu Shaohua said that in order to timely pick out metal inclusions in the stone stack, the company specially installed a metal detector on the conveyor belt. Once a metal object is detected, the detector sounds an alarm and the conveyor belt stops immediately.
Suddenly, the metal detector rang and the conveyor stopped. A operative immediately climbed up and pulled out a shovel from an adult fist-sized pebble heap. "It may be an old shell!"
After receiving the call, Liu Shaohua immediately rushed to the scene and the more he looked like a shell.
Liu Shaohua said that if the shell was not found, it was mixed into the machine to crush it. The consequences would be disastrous. In order to properly place this shovel, Liu Shaohua immediately called 110.
After the police station in Taixing Hongqiao received the alarm, the on-duty police quickly arrived at the scene. The shovel is about 30 centimeters long and weighs 10 pounds. The shell has been seriously corroded. It is barely visible. The tail is bare and the tail is missing. The police carefully took it back to the police station.
“It was the first time that artillery shells were found!†Liu Shaohua said that the raw materials of the cobblestones used by the company were produced in the riverside of Hubei. The batch was shipped to the company’s production site last month. In the past, the metal detector also rang in production, but only some scrap copper was mixed in.
Zhu Zhengzhou, deputy director of the Hongqiao Police Station, said that this shovel is an old shell. But what type of artillery shell is it? Why is it mixed in the pebble pile? Because of the old age, you can't see any handwriting, so he is not sure. The reporter consulted Jiang Wei, the deputy squadron leader of the hazardous chemicals management squadron of the Taixing security brigade, and he could not confirm it.
At the time of the press release, the reporter learned that this shell had been sent to the dangerous goods warehouse of the Taixing Public Security Bureau for proper custody, and was then destroyed centrally afterwards.
The police reminded that because of the long age, the shells, grenade, and bullets found have been rusted and eroded, but many of them are intact and the fuses are still in good condition. The explosives filled in are still powerful. If they are handled improperly, they may explode. Therefore, once the citizens find discarded ammunition, they must promptly report to the police and must not act rashly.