Overview
- TSMC confirmed that four construction workers were killed on Oct. 20 during steel-structure erection at its new Kaohsiung manufacturing site.
- The company and its contractor immediately suspended the related work at the Kaohsiung site and halted similar steel-structure activities at all TSMC construction sites across Taiwan.
- TSMC’s on-site safety team is working with the construction contractor and local authorities to investigate the incident and decide corrective steps.
- Details on cause, the identities of the victims, and when work might resume have not been released, leaving a clear human toll and uncertainty for workers’ families and site crews.
- Because TSMC is the world’s largest contract chipmaker, investigators’ findings and the duration of the pause are likely to affect the timing of planned capacity expansion for advanced chips used in AI and other technologies.