On the 20th of last month, one of the workers who collapsed from a gas leak at the POSCO Pohang steel mill died.

On Nov. 26, vehicles carrying the North Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency's Serious Accident Investigation Team and the National Forensic Service enter the Pohang Steelworks for a joint inspection after a worker inhales toxic gas. /Courtesy of News1

The Pohang Nambu Police Station in North Gyeongsang Province said that a worker in his 50s from a subcontractor, who had fallen into critical condition from gas poisoning, died at about 3:40 a.m. on the 22nd.

As a result, following one death on the 15th, the number of workers who died in this accident increased to two. One POSCO employee who also inhaled the gas and fell into critical condition is understood to have already recovered and been discharged.

Earlier, on the 20th of last month at the POSCO Pohang steel mill, two employees of a partner company and one POSCO employee who were cleaning pipe sludge inhaled gas believed to be carbon monoxide and were taken to a hospital in cardiac arrest.

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