A foreign worker in his 20s died at a construction site of an apartment building in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province. The Ministry of Employment and Labor estimated that the worker died from heat-related illness.
According to the Ministry of Employment and Labor on the 8th, a foreign worker identified as A was found dead around 4:40 p.m. on the 7th in the basement of an apartment construction site in Gumi. It is reported that he had started work for the first time that day.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor and the police are presuming that A's cause of death is heat-related illness. The highest daytime temperature in Gumi on the day of the incident was 35 degrees Celsius, and A's body temperature was 40 degrees Celsius when he was discovered.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor and the police plan to conduct an autopsy to confirm the exact cause of A's death.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Employment and Labor plans to investigate whether there were any violations of the Industrial Safety and Health Act and the Serious Accident Punishment Act at the site where the fatal accident occurred.