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It has been revealed that a worker from a partner company of Korea Electric Power Co., Ltd. died following being electrocuted from a transformer while working alone on a holiday.
The work was ‘unauthorized and unauthorized work’ that even KEPCO was not aware of, and as a result, various safety rules might not be observed.
First, reporter Guna-yeon Koo covered the story.
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Torn indigo blue insulation suit.
Because of the electric shock, the clothes were completely absorbed by the skin, and the rescue team cut off everywhere.
Traces of tan burn are also evident.
These are the clothes that 52-year-old Kim Hyo-yong, a worker at a KEPCO supplier, wore during work on August 6th.
It was a Saturday followingnoon.
Kim, who went to work at the high-voltage wire laying site in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, was electrocuted while working on a transformer.
While examining the inside of the transformer, Kim suffered an electric shock to the back of the neck and shoulder.
At that time, a voltage of hundreds of volts was flowing through the transformer.
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“You’re talking regarding someone who was electrocuted…there’s a lot of damage to the back of this (head)…”
Mr. Kim suffered third-degree burns on the back of his neck and head, hemorrhage in the brain, brain edema, and even a disease in which the muscles melted and disappeared.
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“It was difficult to treat burns because of brain hemorrhage, and it was difficult to treat brain bleeding because of burns.”
Kim, who had been receiving treatment for over a month, underwent an 8-hour skin graft on the 14th of last month.
Coincidentally, it was his lunar birthday and his wife’s solar birthday.
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“I was going to show this to my cake at home, and this following my dad’s surgery, but it hurt so much… I fell asleep a little following turning it on.”
However, Kim lost consciousness due to a stroke right following the operation and eventually died five days later.
After the accident, I mightn’t even watch the 15-second video sent by the two daughters who mightn’t see their father’s face properly.
The construction where the accident occurred was in charge of a subcontractor that had won an order from KEPCO.
However, on the day of the accident, which was Saturday, it was confirmed that the company had been doing ‘unauthorized work’ without prior reporting to KEPCO.
Because of this, KEPCO’s risk assessment, such as whether electricity was cut off, might not be made prior to work, and a supervisor in charge of the construction was not assigned.
The subcontractor did not even have a safety management officer, so only Mr. Kim was around the transformer at the time of the accident.
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“It sounds like a loud noise and it seems like something is going on and I came up. When I came up, I saw that no one was sticking around.”
In January, following the fact that the late Kim Da-un was electrocuted while working on a power pole, KEPCO banned ‘unauthorized work’, but this was not followed at the site.
This is Gunayeon from MBC News.
Video coverage: Dong-won Wi, Hyun-taek Nam Video editing: Jin Bae
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