Our Home Yongin factory worker dies... 6 people, including the factory manager, were transferred

Six people in charge of safety management, including the factory manager, were handed over to the Public Prosecution Office in connection with a worker's fatal accident that occurred at the Our Home factory in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, in June of this year.

The Gyeonggi Southern Police Agency Metropolitan Crime Investigation Unit announced on the 13th that six people, including the factory manager of Our Home Yongin Factory 2, were transferred without detention to the Suwon Regional Public Prosecutors' Office on the 30th of last month on charges of professional negligence causing death.

Those transferred include four people, including the factory manager and safety management manager of Our Home, and two safety management managers from the subcontractor to which the deceased worker belonged.

Immediately after the accident, the police booked one person each from the main contractor and subcontractor, and additionally booked four people responsible for safety management.

They are accused of neglecting safety measures, such as neglecting the fact that a safety cover was not installed on the conveyor belt, in relation to the worker's entrapment accident that occurred at the fish cake skewer packaging workshop on the 4th floor of Our Home Yongin Factory 2, Namsa-eup, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, at around 2:50 p.m. on June 8.

At the time, a worker in his 50s had his neck caught in the rotating shaft of a conveyor belt and was taken to the hospital in cardiac arrest. He received treatment and died 37 days later.

There were a series of entrapment accidents at Our Home Yongin Factory 2 last year. In March, a foreign female worker in her 30s suffered serious injuries when her hands and arms got caught in a machine, and in April, a Korean worker in her 30s died after getting her neck caught in a machine.