A shipbuilding structure weighing 9,000 tonnes came loose at South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) on the evening of 12 February, killing one and injuring another.
Today, South Korea’s Ministry of Employment and Labor imposed a stop-work order on offshore structure block-related processes at HHI’s Ulsan yard and is investigating whether the country’s largest shipbuilder violated the Serious Accidents Punishment Act.
The accident is understood to have occurred around 6.50 pm...