Samsung Heavy industries announced that construction operations are about to restart partially, six days after the fatal crane accident on the Geoje shipyard, according to yonhap news agency.
In particular, the company had received orders from the Ministry of Employment and Labor, to suspend its operations, following the collapse of part of a crane, resulting from a collision between two cranes.
According to the company, an inspection conducted on the scene showed that the risk factors had been removed, so a restart of the operations was approved by the government. Therefore, 1,300 out of 35,000 workers returned to work.
The incident caused death of six and injury of more than 20 workers. The first confirmation indicated five people dead, but then another worker died due to extent injury, raising the number of dead to six.