Died after falling ill while on business trip; company found responsible; ordered to pay compensation of over 48 million yen. In August 2013, a man in his 30s from Kitakyushu, who was working at a ship repair company headquartered in Yokohama, fell ill and died while repairing ships in Saudi Arabia.
His family and others claimed that the cause of the accident was heat stroke, and filed a lawsuit demanding approximately 63 million yen in compensation, alleging that the company had failed in its duty to provide safety considerations.