Toxic gas leak kills 4 workers at POSCO steel mill: police

POHANG — Four workers died Thursday after inhaling an unidentified toxic gas at a factory of the country’s top steelmaker, POSCO, in the southeastern city of Pohang, police said.

POSCO`s headquarters building in Seoul. (Yonhap)

The accident took place at a facility designed to provide air to a blast furnace. Police suspect that the workers might have breathed in nitrogen from a leak in the facility.

The company is trying to establish the cause of their deaths.

(Yonhap)

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