The results of the fire investigation at the Hwaseong Battery Factory in South Korea were announced: the company involved was shoddy and poorly managed, and defective products caught fire

News from this website on August 23. According to CCTV News, on the morning of August 23, local time, the "Hwaseong Battery Factory Fire" accident investigation team composed of the Korean police and labor departments released the results of the accident investigation. The investigation results show that as early as 2021, when the company involved (Aricell) began to provide related battery products to the South Korean military, it has been using deceptive methods such as subcontracting products for testing to pass safety inspections. The production process is shoddy and poorly managed, and ultimately defective. Battery products caught fire and burned, causing tragedy. An investigation by the South Korean police found that since 2021, when providing related products to the South Korean military, the companies involved have been artificially manipulating test data by manufacturing a separate batch of battery packaging testing products to pass the safety inspection of the South Korean military. . The South Korean military discovered problems such as forged product descriptions by the company involved during the inspection of procurement batches in April this year, and determined that the company's relevant batches of products did not meet national defense standards. Since then, the company's product defective rate has increased significantly in the process of rushing work, and eventually a defective product caught fire and caused an accident. The South Korean police have currently launched an investigation into the persons in charge of the companies involved, investigating the faults of corporate managers and conducting follow-up accountability. According to previous reports by this site, at around 10:30 a.m. local time on June 24, a battery fire broke out in a lithium battery manufacturing factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, causing a serious fire. Surveillance video from the incident site showed that when the battery product was found to be smoking and on fire, on-site employees tried to use fire extinguishers to put out the fire. However, the explosive battery burning caused thick smoke to billow in the factory, and the fire quickly spread out of control, and on-site employees also lost their ability to escape. the best time. In the end, more than 35,000 lithium batteries accumulated in the factory burned out. The fire lasted for more than 5 hours before the main fire at the scene was finally extinguished. Firefighters entered the scene and found more than 20 charred bodies. The accident ultimately resulted in the death of 23 people, including 17 Chinese workers, in the fire, and eight others were injured.

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