Two Vietnamese workers die in Japan workplace accident
VOV.VN - Two Vietnamese workers have died in a serious workplace accident at a water pipeline construction site in Kusatsu City, Shiga Prefecture, central Japan, according to local authorities and representatives of Vietnam’s labour management agency in Japan.
The victims were Luu Thanh V., born in 1998 from northern Hung Yen province, and Nguyen The P., born in 2000 from northern Bac Giang province. Both were in their second year under Japan’s Specified Skilled Worker No.1 visa programme and had been employed by Osaka Prefecture-based Egawagumi Joint Stock Company since November 2019.
Kusatsu police reported that the construction site, where workers were filling underground water pipes with cement, usually had six to seven workers on duty, including four Vietnamese employees.
On the morning of May 26, V. and P. were assigned to monitor the cement pumping process to ensure the pipeline was properly filled. Two other Vietnamese workers were carrying out duties about 100 meters away from the site.
Later that morning, a Japanese supervisor discovered P. unconscious at the cement pumping area, with most of his body buried under spilled cement. He was immediately taken out and rushed to hospital. As V. was still missing, workers searched the site and found him unconscious inside the pipe.
Both victims were taken to Shiga Saiseikai Hospital but were pronounced dead at 11:33 a.m. the same day.
Japanese authorities have yet to determine the exact cause of the accident. Initial assessments suggested the victims may have lost consciousness due to oxygen deficiency combined with the smell of cement and were not discovered in time.
Following the incident, the Labour Management Board of the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan contacted Kusatsu police and relevant parties, including the receiving company, the registration support organisation, co-workers and the victims’ families, to provide assistance and guidance regarding funeral arrangements, insurance procedures, and compensation policies for the victims’ families.
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