Overview

• More than 80 personnel, including investigators and labor inspectors, executed the warrant at 12 locations within the Sihwa factory and SPC Group’s Seoul headquarters.
• Authorities had three previous requests for a compulsory investigation rejected before a court granted a raid warrant on June 14.
• At around 3 a.m. on May 19, a woman in her 50s was killed after becoming trapped in a spiral cooling conveyor on the plant’s cream bun production line.
• On May 27, police and labor ministry officials conducted a joint forensic inspection of the Sihwa plant and opened a criminal investigation into plant management.
• Investigators are collecting documents and materials related to occupational safety and health management to determine whether SPC Group neglected safety protocols.