S5 · 01/2025 · Unattributed (South Korea) · Jinju, South Korea
| Company | Unattributed (South Korea) |
| Category | other |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 01/2025 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | Jinju, South Korea |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | - |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | 중앙일보 (Joongang Ilbo) |
A worker in his 50s died after being pinned by an industrial robot arm while removing metal shavings from a CNC lathe work area at an auto parts factory in Jinju; the robot's power had not been shut off and no safety fence separated worker and robot. He died about 90 minutes after the accident.