澳大利亚矿难爆炸，造成5名工人重伤

澳大利亚矿难爆炸，造成5名工人重伤

Five coal mine workers suffered severe injuries in a gas explosion on Wednesday at Anglo American’s underground Grosvenor Mine in central Queensland’s Bowen Basin. Four of the injured workers are in critical conditions and fighting for life while another is reportedly in a very serious condition. All sustained horrific burns to their upper torsos and airways.

星期三，在位于昆士兰中部伯恩盆地的英美资源集团格罗夫纳地下煤矿发生瓦斯爆炸，五名煤矿工人受重伤。据报道，4名受伤工人伤势严重，正在抢救，另1人伤势严重。他们的上半身和呼吸道都被严重烧伤。

Unable to receive adequate treatment in the Isaac local government region, which has limited hospital facilities, the victims were flown to Brisbane in a complex medical evacuation involving five separate planes, with retrieval doctors and nurses working on patients. Four of the injured workers were intubated and ventilated.

由于在医院设施有限的艾萨克地方政府地区得不到足够的治疗，受害者被空运到布里斯班，由五架飞机进行复杂的医疗疏散，救援医生和护士负责救治病人。四名受伤的工人接受了气管插管和通风。

While emergency services were called to the mine site at 3 p.m., the aeromedical services needed to transport the injured did not arrive at the local Moranbah hospital to organise the flights to Brisbane until about 6 p.m.

虽然下午3时紧急救援人员已赶到矿场，但运送伤者所需的航空医疗服务，直到下午6时左右才抵达当地莫兰巴赫医院，安排飞往布里斯班的航班。

Moreover, there was potential for a catastrophic loss of life to have occurred because hundreds of workers were underground at the time of the blast. Such an outcome would have overwhelmed the region’s medical facilities, as well as the aeromedical services.

此外，由于爆炸发生时有数百名工人在井下，可能会造成灾难性的生命损失。这样的结果将使该地区的医疗设施和航空医疗服务不堪重负。

Isaac authorities had already raised grave concerns about the inability of the region’s medical resources to cope with a COVID-19 outbreak after the mining industry was exempted from lockdowns. The Queensland state Labor government did not act on these concerns.

艾萨克当局已经对该地区的医疗资源无法应对COVID-19疫情提出了严重关切，此前采矿业已免于封锁。昆士兰州工党政府没有对这些担忧采取行动。