DSME Suffers Second Deadly Fire

A fire broke out inside an LPG tanker being built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea on Tuesday, killing one worker and injuring seven others.

The death, of the man in his 50s, was the result of inhalation of toxic fumes. 

News agency Yonhap reports that officials suspect the fire was caused by a spark from a welder’s torch inside one of the tanks on the 85,000-ton tanker.

Approximately 130 people were working inside the tanker when the fire broke out. The fire was extinguished about an hour after it started.

In August this year, two workers died and seven were injured in another fire at the yard. The fire reportedly started while the workers were welding inside a hull of an LPG carrier.