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Another worker died today (13th) at Hyundai Heavy Industries, which has suffered a series of industrial accidents. It was the third fatal accident that occurred at Hyundai Heavy Industries this year, as it fell while repairing the roof from a height of 25 meters belonging to an external supplier.
This is UBC reporter Yeeun Kim.
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place where Jeong Mo, in his 40s, crashed is a painting factory in a shipyard.
To avoid the heat of the sweltering heat, he fell 25m down while replacing the roof around 5:30 a.m. and was taken to the hospital, but he died.
Jung fell when the old bolt connecting the slate burst, and in the process, the lifeline was scraped off the edge of the steel plate and cut, an eyewitness said.
The union claimed there was not even a fall arrester.
[Hyung-gyun Kim / Head of Policy Planning Department of Hyundai Heavy Industries Union: (Other) workplaces have all the fall arresters installed below, but (the place where the accident happened) is covered with veneer plywood and rubber, so you can’t see the top from below and the floor from above. (A fall prevention net) may not have been installed... .] The
company to which Jung belongs signed a short-term construction contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries and has been working on environmental improvement since last May.
Then, around 2 pm, a worker at Hyundai Heavy Industries, who was descending a ladder from the Seonjeong Factory, fell from a height of 3 meters and injured his leg.
At Hyundai Heavy Industries, seven fatal accidents occurred this year alone, following February and May last year.
"We feel a heavy responsibility," Hyundai Heavy Industries said in a statement. "We are implementing countermeasures with the determination to ensure that a safety accident will never occur again."
The police and the Ministry of Employment and Labor will investigate whether negligence and violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
(Video coverage: Jang Jin-guk UBC, CG: Song Jeong-geun)