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When will the hope you just heard,'a world that doesn't die while working' is possible?
A year ago, there was an accident where two workers died during the construction of a sewage pipe in downtown Seoul.
The court then held the field managers accountable and sentenced them to a fine.
This is reporter Ahn Hee-jae.
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In June of last year, Mr. A, a worker in his 60s, died at the sewage pipe construction site in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
He entered a 10m deep manhole filled with toxic gas and fell by suffocation.
[Lee Ki-ju/Seoul Gangnam Fire Station Field Response Team (Last June): Carbon monoxide was measured to be 170 (ppm), so it is in a state of continuing ventilation and work. If it is more than 50ppm, it is dangerous... .] The
excavator driver who ran to save Mr. A also lost his life, and it turned out that he had no safety equipment such as masks or accident prevention plans.
The prosecution decided that Mr. Hwang, who was the head of the work group at the time, said that despite the high risk of an accident, "the manhole is deep, there is no need to enter."
In addition, Hwang was handed over to trial, saying that additional deaths occurred due to poor control of the site.
The first trial court found them guilty and sentenced them to a fine of 7 million won, and the site director and the construction contractor who were indicted together also took responsibility and sentenced them to a fine of 1 million won.
[Profit Chan/Attorney: It's too low a fine. (Industrial accident death accident) does not happen even if only one of the 10 measures is followed... . (You must take an approach that you can prevent it if you try.)]
About 23,000 people died or injured in accidents while working in the first quarter of this year, more than 1,500 people from the same period last year.
(Video editing: Hongmyeong Lee)