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Worker left unconscious after entrapment in packaging robot at Yeosu Industrial Complex

S4 · 01/31
2026 · Unattributed (South Korea) · Yeosu, South Korea

Record

CompanyUnattributed (South Korea)
Categoryother
Typeinjury
Date01/31
2026
Time of daynot documented
LocationYeosu, South Korea
SeverityS4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale-
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
Source여수넷통뉴스 (Yeosu Net Tong News)

What happened

A subcontractor worker in his 40s was checking stalled packaging robot equipment alone at a factory in Yeosu National Industrial Complex when the robot restarted and trapped his chest between the robot and a conveyor belt, leaving him unconscious.

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