A pedestrian was injured due to a hot water pipe rupture on a road in Magok-dong and is in critical condition... Burns 60% of body (comprehensive)

The previous day, at 8:18 p.m., hot water and heating were cut off for 9,000 households due to an accident.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporters Yang Soo-yeon and Yoon Min-hyuk = At 8:18 p.m. on the 6th, an accident occurred where a heat transport pipe buried on a road near an apartment in Magok-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul ruptured, and a citizen passing by the scene was seriously injured.

According to the fire department and Gangseo-gu Office on the 7th, authorities responded to a report of a burn patient at the scene of a hot water pipe rupture around 1 a.m. on the same day, and transported Mr. A, a man in his 40s, to the hospital.

Mr. A was found to have suffered 2nd to 3rd degree burns on 60% of his body after falling into a hole caused by a ruptured hot water pipe while passing the accident scene.

Person A is currently being treated in the intensive care unit in critical condition.

At the time of the accident the night before, steam rose all over the road, the ground sank, and one traffic light fell down and was damaged.

Heating and hot water were cut off in 8,965 households nearby, and one Seoul Energy Corporation employee also suffered burns after stepping on a puddle of hot water while checking the accident site.