Police raid POSCO E&C over electrocution accident involving Myanmar worker
Ruling Democratic Party of Korea lawmakers inspect the construction site where a Myanmarese worker was seriously injured in an apparent electrocution in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi Province, July 31. Yonhap
Police raided builder POSCO E&C on Tuesday over an electrocution accident involving a Myanmarese worker earlier this month.
The worker in his 30s was checking water pumps at an expressway construction site in Gwangmyeong, just southwest of Seoul, on Aug. 4 when he apparently got an electric shock. He has yet to regain consciousness.
Around 70 police and labor ministry officials raided the headquarters of contractor POSCO E&C in Incheon, west of Seoul, and the Seoul office of a subcontractor to seize relevant documents and files.
President Lee Jae Myung has vowed tough action against fatal industrial accidents.
Last week, he singled out POSCO E&C over repeated fatal accidents at its labor sites and instructed his aides to consider revoking the company's construction license and excluding it from public bidding.