Another Fatal Accident at Dongkuk Steel Busan Plant

[Asia Economy Reporter Hwang Yoon-joo] Another worker fatality has occurred at Dongkuk Steel's Busan plant.

According to Dongkuk Steel on the 17th, a man in his 50s, employee A, who was working in the raw material product warehouse at Dongkuk Steel's Busan plant in Nam-gu, Busan, was caught between steel coils around 5 p.m. on the 16th and was transported to the hospital but died during treatment.

At the time of the accident, A was reportedly operating a small crane to move coils while using a cutter knife to unwrap the packaging. When the siren alerting the accident sounded, a colleague working nearby rushed over and found A trapped between the coils. The steel coils weigh up to 6.3 tons.

The police are investigating the exact circumstances of the accident, including whether safety work regulations were followed.

Last month, at Dongkuk Steel's Pohang plant, a food supply vendor B was caught in a freight elevator and died. In January last year, at Dongkuk Steel's Busan plant, an outsourced worker repairing a hydraulic machine was caught in the machinery, resulting in one death and one serious injury.

Previously, in 2019, a subcontractor employee fell to their death in a warehouse-type factory within the Incheon steel mill, and in August 2018, a piping rupture accident at the Busan plant caused one worker to suffer burns, leading the Labor Office to issue a work stoppage order and halt factory operations for 14 days.

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