Former Samkang S&C CEO Receives Finalized Two-Year Prison Sentence for Worker’s Fatal Fall
Second Prison Sentence Under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act
The Supreme Court has finalized a two-year prison sentence for the former CEO of Samkang S&C, who was responsible for a worker’s fatal fall due to a lack of safety equipment. This marks the second time a corporate executive charged under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act has received a finalized prison sentence, following Park Soonkwan, CEO of Aricell.
According to the legal community on September 26, the Supreme Court’s First Division (Presiding Justice Shin Sookhee) dismissed the appeal filed by the former CEO of Samkang S&C, who was indicted for violating the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, thereby upholding the lower court’s sentence of two years in prison and a fine of 2 billion won.
The former CEO of Samkang S&C was accused of failing to implement safety measures such as installing safety railings or fall protection nets at the workplace. In February 2022, at the company’s facility in South Gyeongsang Province, a worker in his 50s, identified as Mr. A, died after falling while repairing ship safety railings. The company denied the charges, claiming that Mr. A had entered the worksite without authorization and moved in an abnormal manner, which led to his fatal fall.
The court of first instance sentenced the former CEO of Samkang S&C to two years in prison. The court stated, “The defendant has already been criminally punished seven times for violating the Industrial Safety and Health Act,” and “Within just one year at the business he managed, as many as three workers died in industrial accidents.”
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Mr. A appealed the decision, but the appellate court dismissed the appeal and upheld the two-year prison sentence. The Supreme Court also reached the same conclusion, stating, “There was no error in the lower court’s judgment that exceeded the bounds of free evaluation of evidence or misunderstood the law.”
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