60kg Component Drops, Killing Woman in Her 40s on Way Home From Work

An employee heading home from 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 external 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 in 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 on her way home after finishing special overtime work.

The transformer radiator that struck A weighed approximately 60 kg 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 dismantling an unused transformer inside the second-floor electrical substation of the mobile phone component plant.

Police believe the accident occurred when a handcart carrying the transformer radiator got caught on the edge of the second-floor external emergency staircase during the subcontractor's work, causing the contents to bounce outward. Authorities are currently investigating the exact circumstances of the incident.

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