January 31, 2021, Harbin City Government announced the "8.4 food company warehouse collapse accident" investigation report, the cause of this accident for the company involved in the 3 illegal expansion, ultimately resulting in 9 deaths and 1 injury tragedy. The local public security organs have taken criminal measures against 9 people involved in the incident, and 25 people were given disciplinary measures.

On August 4, 2020, the warehouse of Harbin Jade Hand Food Company suddenly collapsed, trapping 12 people inside the building. After the accident, the local Emergency Management Agency immediately organized rescue workers to search and rescue, as of 4:00 on August 5, all 12 trapped people were rescued, of which 1 person was injured, 2 people were not injured, 9 people unfortunately died.

Witnesses at the scene said the warehouse has been built for several years, and never had similar problems before, but before this accident, the construction crews pushed the wall down during the renovation process.

The former tenant in charge of the warehouse introduced the warehouse was previously a bungalow, and later added two floors, may not be built solid. A month before the incident, he felt as if the house was going to collapse, very unsafe, so he moved away.

The report shows that when the accident occurred, workers were renovating the first floor of the depot, and during the construction process workers removed some of the walls, making the house insufficient bearing capacity under pressure, which was the main cause of the building collapse. The secondary reason is that the warehouse was demolished and rebuilt before the joint construction is unreasonable, the building itself has a great safety hazard.

According to Red Star News, the depot*** had four floors, the second floor was the office area of Jade Hand Foods, and the rest of the floors were rented to a number of tenants.2020, at the end of June, these tenants moved away, the first floor of the depot was rented to a repair shop, and it was they who were in the midst of construction when the incident occurred.

The head of the repair shop, Xiao Sun, said that because the building was an addition, the quality of the floor slabs was not good and not very strong, so they did not refurbish it immediately after taking over. But Jade Hands said the depot's walls were non-load-bearing and could be removed and remodeled, and agreed to the content of the demolition job proposed by Xiao Sun. Based on the incorrect information provided by Jade Hands, the builder removed the load-bearing wall of the storehouse without a survey, leading to the accident.

Public information shows that Jade Hand Foods was founded in 1996, mainly operating cold storage leasing, agricultural and sideline product sales and other businesses.

The investigation report said that Jade Hands Food Company had illegally contracted the project to a tenant and illegally altered and expanded it without a field survey and without obtaining a construction-related license. Therefore, the accident involved the tenant, the construction company, the excavator driver and other implementation of the construction of the construction are illegal.

In addition, the jade hand company will warehouse floor cover completed, the local administrative law enforcement bureau did not timely found illegal construction and timely demolition, the relevant departments did not fulfill the regulatory responsibilities, the impact of multiple factors led to the accident, resulting in a number of casualties, economic losses are huge.

A family member of one of the victims, Xiao Wang (a pseudonym), said the night of the accident, she was waiting for news of the rescue, but also prayed that his father must not be in trouble, and posted: "The whole night, as if a year has passed." The next day, Wang received the unfortunate news of her father's death, she said sadly: "Good thing my father's body is still intact, we recognized him at once when we arrived at the funeral home, may my father rest in peace in another place."

The accident also gave relevant departments and enterprises a wake-up call: to strengthen the inspection and management of the building, and severely punish violations of the law, so that similar accidents do not happen again. People never know which one will come first tomorrow and which one will come first, but I hope the deceased will rest in peace.