{"id":52762,"date":"2022-09-16T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52762"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:01:30","slug":"large-truck-overturns-in-masanryong-pass-in-mid-august-leading-to-deaths-and-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/large-truck-overturns-in-masanryong-pass-in-mid-august-leading-to-deaths-and-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Large truck overturns in Masanryong Pass in mid-August, leading to deaths and injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About 10 people were hurt or killed when a large truck overturned in Hyesan\u2019s Masanryong Pass in mid-August, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source in Yanggang Province last Friday, a truck carrying workers of the Hyesan Youth Mine overturned in the Masanryong Pass in Masan-dong, Hyesan on Aug. 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the workers had been mobilized to obtain sand and gravel needed to repair the mine\u2019s tunnels. They obtained what they needed in Samsu County, loaded the supplies on the truck and were returning to the mine when the vehicle\u2019s brakes suddenly gave out at the top of the Masanryong Pass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six of the truck&#8217;s passengers were immediately killed, while another eight were badly injured and are currently being hospitalized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said nobody knows when the injured workers will recover as they suffered broken vertebrae and ribs and serious head contusions, among other injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the accident presumably resulted from torrential rains last month \u201ccollapsing some unpaved roads\u201d such as the one through the Masanryong Pass, and because vehicles \u201care improperly inspected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the mine is reportedly providing the wounded with neither medical support nor even proper financial support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mine has simply asked co-workers of the injured laborers to organize frequent hospital visits, with co-workers taking turns paying a single visit to their hurt comrades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The families of the hospitalized workers not only have to provide food and medicine for the injured, but nurse them as well. Relatives are reportedly venting their anger at the situation, complaining of their plight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bereaved relatives of the deceased are also expressing their resentment with the mine offering no compensation beyond covering some of the funeral costs, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe laborers received nothing more than death and injuries from a workplace they showed up at every day even though it gave them neither a kilo of rice nor a single cent,\u201d said the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWorkplace officials treat absenteeism as a crime, like you have an ideological problem, and force you to go to work,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cAnd when an accident happens while you\u2019re on the job, they play dumb and dodge responsiblity by chalking it up to \u2018fate.\u2019 So the families of the dead and injured cannot repress their rage.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220909-5\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 10 people were hurt or killed when a large truck overturned in Hyesan\u2019s Masanryong Pass in mid-August, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 According to a Daily NK source in Yanggang Province last Friday, a truck carrying workers of the Hyesan Youth Mine overturned in the Masanryong Pass in Masan-dong, Hyesan on Aug. 20. 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