Trying to Stand Up a Fallen Water Bottle... 60s Worker Crushed by Machine in Fatal Accident View original image

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] At around 9:40 a.m. on the 16th, a man in his 60s working at a bottled water manufacturing factory in Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam, was crushed to death by a machine.


According to the police, a stacking machine was moving up and down, stacking bundles of bottled water at the factory that day.


Mr. A was trying to upright bottled water bottles that had fallen around the stacking machine when his body was placed under the stacking machine, and it is known that the accident occurred at that moment.


Mr. A was urgently transported to a hospital after being reported by another worker nearby, but he ultimately passed away.



The police are investigating whether safety regulations were violated by questioning company officials.


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