Police and Labor Ministry Conduct Search and Seizure at Ourhome Yongin Plant over Worker Entrapment Accident

22 Investigators Deployed to Determine Cause of Accident
Safety Cover Was Not Installed at the Scene
Authorities Investigating Possible Violations of Occupational Safety and Health Act

The police and labor authorities have launched a search and seizure operation at the Ourhome Yongin Plant, where a worker entrapment accident occurred.

From 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on June 23, the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency’s Metropolitan Crime Investigation Unit and the Gyeonggi Regional Employment and Labor Office’s Metropolitan Industrial Accident Prevention Supervision Division conducted a search and seizure at Ourhome Yongin Plant 2, located in Namsa-eup, Cheoin-gu, Yongin City.

The two agencies deployed 22 investigators to secure documents and electronic information from two sites, including the on-site office. Materials obtained include work plans, safety management documents, and reports on measures to prevent recurrence after previous accidents. Based on this, authorities plan to determine the circumstances of the accident, identify those responsible, and pursue criminal charges against them.

Previously, at around 2:50 p.m. on June 8, a worker A, employed by a subcontractor, suffered a neck entrapment in the conveyor belt’s rotating shaft in the fish cake packaging room on the fourth floor of Ourhome Yongin Plant 2. Worker A has not regained consciousness.

The police found that safety covers intended to prevent entrapment accidents were not installed at the accident scene and have booked one safety manager each from Ourhome and the subcontractor on criminal charges. The Ministry of Employment and Labor has initiated an integrated supervisory investigation into industrial safety and labor practices at Ourhome and is reviewing possible violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Meanwhile, at the same plant, a female foreign worker in her 30s suffered serious hand and arm injuries in a machinery entrapment accident in March of last year, and in April of the same year, a Korean worker in his 30s died after his neck was caught in a machine.

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