Samsung Officials to Stand Trial for Safety Negligence after Gas Leak – professional negligence has led to last month’s fatal hydrofluoric acid gas leak.
Samsung Officials to Stand Trial for Safety Negligence after Gas Leak
Yonhap, a South Korean News website, is reporting that 7 Samsung officials are about to stand trial for safety negligence after Samsung plant gas leak.
According to the report, “A total of seven people, including three officials of Samsung Electronics Co.’s chip plant, have been indicted on charges of professional negligence that led to last month’s fatal hydrofluoric acid gas leak, police said Tuesday.”
Early this month, Yonhap had reported that Samsung’s officials attempted to deny the gas leak was from their plant. However, CCTV footage contradicted Samsung’s report.
Song Byung-sun, leading the investigator, said that “Hydrofluoric acid has been leaked outside of the chip plant after analysis of CCTV footage taken inside the Central Chemical Supply System (CCSS) of the chip plant.”
[quote] Hydrofluoric acid was discharged from a Samsung Electronics Co. chip plant into the environment following a fatal leakage last month, police said Friday, in stark contrast to the company’s earlier announcement that the situation had been contained.
Up to 10 liters of diluted hydrofluoric acid, a colorless acute poison that can damage the lungs and bones, and even affect the nervous system, leaked from one of the pipes at the main semiconductor plant in Hwaseong, 60 kilometers south of Seoul, on Jan. 28, killing one worker and injuring four others.[/quote]
Source: Yonhap