S5 · 05/22
2024 ·
Unattributed (South Korea) · Cheonan, South Chungcheong, South Korea
| Company | Unattributed (South Korea) |
| Category | other |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 05/22 2024 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | Cheonan, South Chungcheong, South Korea |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | - |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | 세이프티퍼스트닷뉴스 (Safety First News) |
A foreign national worker in his 30s died after a retrieval/take-out robot suddenly activated and trapped him while he was applying coating material to parts at an automotive parts factory in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. He went into cardiac arrest and died after being taken to hospital.