"Not Enough Deicing Agent, and You Want Us to Dispatch Again?" Setting Snowplow on Fire in a Fit of Rage

Snowplow vehicle clearing snow on the road.

[Asia Economy Reporter Hana Na] An employee of a company contracted by a local government to carry out snow removal work from early morning set fire to a snow removal vehicle in frustration after the county office requested another dispatch.

According to Muan County in Jeollanam-do on the 9th, at around 12:22 PM that day, employee A of a snow removal subcontracted company in Muan-eup, Muan County, set fire to his snow removal vehicle.

Colleagues who witnessed the fire immediately attempted to extinguish it with fire extinguishers, and with the help of 119 firefighters who arrived after a report, the fire was put out by 12:35 PM with only part of the vehicle scorched.

Muan County contracted with A’s company to lease eight snow removal vehicles for three months this winter. Accordingly, A and his colleagues were mobilized for snow removal work this week as well as last week.

On that day, a county office official who visited the company to check the status of snow removal materials requested A and his colleagues, who had been working on road snow removal since morning and had come into the company for breakfast, to dispatch to a back road where many complaints had been received.

A and others refused the dispatch, stating that there was little snow removal material left and that they had previously experienced great difficulty entering and turning around on the back road with a 15-ton vehicle.

Another county official asked them to distribute snow removal materials to each vehicle and attach shovel blades to the vehicles to clear the snow, but A detached the snow removal equipment from his vehicle and set fire inside the vehicle.

A Muan County official said, "We will cooperate well with the company to ensure that snow removal work is not disrupted," and added, "We apologize to the residents."

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