On the 20th, the Ministry of Employment and Labor and police searched DL Construction in connection with the death of a worker who fell at an apartment construction site in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province.

The Uijeongbu branch of the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Northern Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency stated that they began the search targeted at DL Construction, the construction company, and the site office from the morning. About 34 labor inspectors and police were deployed.

Director General Kim Ju-young and Secretary Park Hae-cheol of the Democratic Party of Korea's industrial accident prevention TES visit the construction site of the apartment building by DL Construction in Uijeongbu, where a worker fell to their death, on the afternoon of the 14th to hear explanations from the officials. /Yonhap News

A spokesperson from the Ministry of Employment and Labor noted, "We plan to thoroughly check the safety measures and overall safety management system of the business sites to prevent falling accidents and investigate the structural and fundamental causes that led to the serious accident at the construction company. We will conduct a strict and prompt investigation into whether there are any violations of the Industrial Safety and Health Act and the Serious Accident Punishment Act."

Earlier, on the 8th, a worker in his 50s from a subcontractor of DL Construction fell from a height of six floors while dismantling a falling object prevention net and died. DL Construction immediately halted all work at the sites, and on the 11th, all executives, including the CEO, submitted their resignations, taking responsibility for the incident.

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