ULSAN — One employee has died and 4 others had been presumed lifeless after being found below a collapsed boiler tower at a thermal energy plant within the southeastern metropolis of Ulsan on Friday, with two others remaining unaccounted for, firefighting officers mentioned.
The boiler tower collapsed at an influence plant of the Ulsan department of Korea East-West Energy Co., a state-run utility firm, the day gone by.
One employee was pronounced lifeless Friday, whereas one other 4 had been feared lifeless, firefighting officers mentioned. Of the 4, one was taken to a hospital, and operations to drag out the opposite three had been below means.
The precise places of the remaining two had been nonetheless unknown.
Initially, 9 staff had been reported trapped, however two had been rescued early on.
The deceased, 44, was pronounced lifeless round 5 a.m. after going into cardiac arrest whereas rescue staff tried to drag him out, Kim Jeong-sik, an official on the Ulsan Nambu fireplace station, advised reporters.
“A rescue employee injected him with painkillers and took measures to maintain him heat, however he ultimately handed away,” Kim mentioned, including the opposite employee noticed with him was additionally tough to drag out and presumed lifeless.
Firefighters needed to work by way of some 30 meters of metal and different particles to achieve the positioning of the collapse.
The tower was 60 meters tall and reportedly within the strategy of being dismantled utilizing explosives. The trapped folks had been all presumed to be staff of a subcontractor.
Firefighters perform a rescue operation after a boiler tower collapsed at a thermal energy plant operated by Korea East-West Energy Co. within the southeastern metropolis of Ulsan, Thursday. Yonhap
