S3 · 10/2019 · LG Energy Solution
| Company | LG Energy Solution |
| Category | energy storage |
| Type | fire |
| Date | 10/2019 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | 17 of 27 national ESS fire incidents |
| Confidence | high |
| Verification | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
| Source | ETNews / Korea Times |
Of 27 energy storage system fires in South Korea by Oct 2019, 17 involved ESS units equipped with LG Chem (now LG Energy Solution) batteries; a government-led investigation team concluded 4 of 5 fires in an Aug-Oct 2019 cluster were probably caused by battery malfunction, which LG disputed.