The Ministry of Employment and Labor and police have launched a compulsory investigation into the death of a worker at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan shipyard last month.
The ministry said Thursday that its Ulsan office and the Ulsan Metropolitan Police Agency deployed about 60 labor inspectors and police officers starting at 9 a.m. to conduct search and seizure operations at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan headquarters and subcontractor offices.
The ministry and police plan to use the evidence obtained through the raid to investigate whether the company violated the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Serious Accidents Punishment Act. The latter law allows for the criminal prosecution of management officials at workplaces where serious accidents occur.
A woman in her 60s working for a subcontractor was killed in a fire that broke out on a submarine under maintenance at the shipyard on Nov. 9.
