Authorities in Korea are investigating the deaths of three Hyundai workers in the automaker’s home nation. The engineers were working on a static car inside an environmental testing chamber at the automaker’s Ulsan plant.

Three workers died at a Hyundai car plant on Tuesday, the South Korean automaker told AFP, with local reports suggesting it was an accident during a vehicle performance test. "The three -- two Hyundai researchers and the other affiliated with a subcontractor -- were found collapsed at a test chamber of the plant where they were conducting a car performance test,

Police and the labour ministry are investigating the incident, which reportedly involved suffocation in a testing chamber.

Three researchers died of suffocation during a vehicle testing at Hyundai Motor Company’s car manufacturing plant in Ulsan, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul. According to police officials Tuesday,

ULSAN, Nov. 19 (Yonhap) -- Three researchers died of suffocation during vehicle testing at a Hyundai Motor Co. plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan on Tuesday, officials said.

The workers are reported to have died of suffocation. Police are investigating the incident at the plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan, which is Hyundai's biggest manufacturing facility.

Three researchers dead in accident at Hyundai Motor plant Seen here is the main gate of a Hyundai Motor Co. plant in Ulsan, 299 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Nov. 19, 2024. Earlier in the day, three researchers suffocated to death during a vehicle performance test.

ULSAN, Nov. 19 (Yonhap) -- Three researchers died of suffocation during vehicle testing at a Hyundai Motor Co. plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan on Tuesday, officials said.

At least three people died apparently due to suffocation during vehicle testing at a Hyundai Motor plant in the southeastern city of Ulsan, according to police and officials, Tuesday.