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An employee leaving work at a mobile phone component manufacturing company in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, has died after being struck by a falling object.
According to the Masan Dongbu Police Station on October 25, a transformer radiator fell from the second-floor exterior emergency staircase of a mobile phone component manufacturing plant in Yangdeok-dong, Masanhoewon-gu, Changwon, to the ground outside at around 12:12 p.m. the previous day, striking a woman in her 40s, identified as A.
A sustained severe injuries from the accident and was transported to a hospital, but ultimately died.
Police investigations showed that A, an employee of the company, fell victim to the accident while heading home after finishing a special shift.
The transformer radiator that struck A weighed approximately 60 kilograms and is understood to have fallen from a height of about 4 meters.
At the time of the accident, a subcontractor contracted by the company was carrying out work to dismantle an unused transformer in the second-floor electrical substation of the mobile phone component manufacturing plant.
Police believe the accident occurred when a handcart carrying the transformer radiator got caught on a ledge of the second-floor exterior emergency staircase during the subcontractor's work, causing the contents to bounce outward. Authorities are currently investigating the exact circumstances.
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