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Yesterday (9th), when the heat wave hit the road, a worker in his 50s contractor working at Hyundai Steel's Dangjin Works died. After fixing the air conditioner, I fell, and my body temperature was over 40 degrees. 

This is reporter Yoo Su-hwan.

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4:30 pm yesterday, a 53-year-old outsourced worker, Park Mo, was found dead at a crane in Hyundai Steel's Dangjin Steel Mill

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At the time of discovery, Park's body temperature was 40.2 degrees and the field temperature was 43 degrees. 

Park was repairing the cockpit air conditioner on a 30-meter-high crane, where he was working, an environment that solidified liquid liquid into a solid environment, raising and lowering it by 50 degrees, the union claimed.

[Judy Jung-hwa Kang / Metal Workers Occupational Safety and Health Director: casting plant inde itself is generally very high temperatures, both are called home to me that melts made slab of molten metal temperature is very nopahyo that the crane -

11:00 am before 4:00 being breath Up to half, Park did the same.

Hyundai Steel explained that it provided several breaks in addition to lunch time, and provided a cool rest area and water, but the union's words are different.

[Kang Jeong-hwa/Director of the Work Safety and Health Bureau of the Metal Workers Union: Even if he was taking a break, he was just sitting a little somewhere on the upper part of the crane, and he was given saline, water and glucose. .]

Since 2006, 38 workers have died in the Hyundai Steel Dangjin Steel Mill due to a serious disaster. 

The Ministry of Employment and Labor will autopsy Mr. Park tomorrow to reveal the exact cause of death. 

After reviewing the autopsy results and death certificate, the government will decide whether or not to investigate a serious disaster.

(Video coverage: Taehoon Kim, Video editing: Park Jeongsam)