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)