60kg Object Falls, Crushing Woman in Her 40s to Death on Her Way Home From Work

An employee leaving work at a mobile phone component manufacturing plant in Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, 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 passed away.

Police investigations revealed that A, an employee of the company, met with the fatal accident while heading home after finishing a special shift.

The transformer radiator that struck A weighed approximately 60 kilograms and reportedly plummeted from a height of about 4 meters.

At the time of the accident, a subcontractor contracted by the manufacturing plant was carrying out work to dismantle an unused transformer in the second-floor substation.

Police believe that during the subcontracted work, a handcart carrying the transformer radiator got caught on the threshold of the second-floor exterior emergency staircase, causing the contents to bounce outward and trigger the accident. Authorities are currently investigating the exact circumstances.

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