The accident happened at around 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, when a piece of falling equipment hit employees of the engineering and construction company as they were dismantling the aluminum plant in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou City, according to the Henan branch of the Aluminum Corporation of China.
Rescuers are still searching for two people.
Seven people were pronounced dead at the scene. Eight others, two of whom were seriously wounded, have been sent to hospital.
The police said 23 people were working at the site when the accident occurred, three escaped without injury.
One person has been detained by the police.
The engineering and construction company is owned by the Henan branch of the Aluminum Corporation of China.
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