Affected by successive days of rain, on March 30, 2020, when train T179 was run to Yongxing County, Hunan Province, it collided with a line collapse and derailed and caught fire. The train also carried 654 passengers and 37 railway staff, and the situation at the scene was very urgent.

After the accident, Sany equipment quickly assisted, arrived and launched rescue within 2 hours, and fully opened the life channel.

Arrive in 2 hours

At that time, the accident caused a fire behind the locomotive and a rollover of five cars next to it, causing one railway police officer to die, four people were seriously injured, 123 were slightly injured, and many were trapped.

The accident occurred in a mountainous village in Yonghua Village, Gaotingsi Town. At 2 pm, the nearest two Trinity SY375 excavators and one SY365 entered the site. It was the first rescue equipment to arrive.

Work overnight, clearing the life channel

The sidecars are S-shaped "sideways" in the mountains. In the CCTV and China News Agency live footage, Sany is equipped to move the sidecars together to clear the passage.

As of 16:00 on March 30, 2020, the last trapped person was successfully rescued by firefighters, and all injured persons have been sent to the local hospital for treatment or observation.

At present, with the help of large-scale equipment, after overnight operations, landslides and derailed carriages have been basically cleared, and railway lines will soon be cleared again.

Sany has always fulfilled its social responsibilities, and has participated in the national rescue and disaster relief work many times, making the most beneficial contribution to the rescue work. Hope everything goes well in the follow-up rescue! Editor / Zhao Jing