A South Korean expat Choi Dong Baek working here was killed Sunday when a forklift operated by Menti Dacanay ran over him at an assembly facility of the Hanjin Heavy Industries Corporation-Philippines.
Police reports Choi Dong Baek, a 51-year-old supervisor at the sprawling shipbuilding complex located at the Redondo Peninsula in Subic Bay. He was run over by a forklift operated by Menti Dacanay, a Filipino worker, at around 12:45 a.m. at the vicinity of assembly shop C where metal works are done.
Baek was rushed to the San Marcelino Hospital where he expired at about 1:30 a.m. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident.
Baek was the first South Korean killed this year and is the first expat to be fatally involved in a work-related accident. His death raised the total number of work-related deaths to 19 since Hanjin's construction and shipbuilding operations began in 2006.
A 19-year-old Filipino worker, Raldon del Rosario, died when a metal base of newly installed canvass door fell on him last Friday. He died of massive head injuries, also injured Camalao Bochie, 24, who suffered leg injuries.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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