A collapsed metal construction is seen on the website of a library building website within the southwestern metropolis of Gwangju, Friday. Yonhap
The final lacking employee in a library building website accident was discovered useless Saturday, leaving the entire loss of life toll at 4 within the deadly collapse incident that occurred two days in the past.
The physique of the 58-year-old employee, recognized by his surname Kim, was found at round 11:20 a.m., officers mentioned, bringing the loss of life toll from Thursday’s accident to 4.
Earlier within the day, authorities discovered the physique of one other employee, surnamed Ko, at round 1:03 a.m. Two different staff died on Thursday, the day the accident occurred.
The 4 victims had been recognized as technicians affiliated with a subcontractor, all of whom had been Korean nationals.
Officers suspect the collapse started as staff poured concrete onto the two-story construction’s rooftop, with the bottom flooring falling to the underground stage.
The library below building was being constructed by the Gwangju metropolitan authorities on the positioning of a former waste incineration plant within the metropolis some 300 kilometers south of Seoul.
Police and labor authorities raided the headquarters of the mission’s primary contractor to grab paperwork associated to the development to verify whether or not the required security measures had been in place.
“We’ll completely examine the structural causes of this accident that prompted a number of casualties and maintain these accountable to account,” an official on the Gwangju department of the Ministry of Employment and Labor mentioned.
Land Minister Kim Yun-duk mentioned Friday that the federal government plans to introduce a particular regulation to strengthen building office security and implement harder penalties for deadly accidents in response to a rising variety of such incidents at building websites.
Since taking workplace in June, President Lee Jae Myung has reiterated the necessity for stronger measures to stop industrial accidents following a collection of accidents at workplaces managed by main building firms.
