"This is Attempted Murder": Employee Falls 5m After Boss Shakes Forklift as a "Joke"

Police have launched an investigation after an employee at a food ingredient company filed a complaint alleging that they were injured after falling from a forklift due to a prank by the company CEO.

According to the Gimpo Police Station in Gyeonggi Province on the 30th [June 30], an employee in their 40s, identified as A, who works at a food ingredient company in Gimpo, filed a complaint late last month asking for the punishment of company representative B, a person in their 50s, on charges of injury.

In the complaint, A reportedly claimed, "While working on a forklift to place cargo on a high shelf early last month, I told B that I have acrophobia and asked him not to shake it, but he continued to shake the forklift as a joke, causing me to fall 5 meters down."

At the time, A fell toward boxes stacked nearby before hitting the ground and briefly losing consciousness. It was found that B was driving the forklift.

However, B reportedly claimed during police questioning that "an accident occurred during work, not as a prank."

A is known to have quit the job due to aftereffects from the accident.

Police plan to forward B to prosecutors after conducting additional investigations, including witness testimonies.

A writer who identified themselves as A's older sibling recently posted an internal CCTV video capturing the fall on an online community along with a post titled, "Isn't this attempted murder?"

(Photo: Capture of CCTV footage from an online community, Yonhap News)
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