An explosion at LGD's OLED TV fab kills two employees and injures four others

An explosion at LG Display's OLED TV factory in Paju killed two employees and injured four others (which are currently recovering). The explosion was caused by a Nitrogen gas leak, and LGD does not know the cause of the leak yet.

South Korea's labor ministry has ordered LGD to halt the operation in the production line while the investigation of the cause of the accident continues. LG Display offered an apology to the victims. This a tragic incident and we send our condolences to the families of those employees.

Back in 2012 a large explosion broke out at LG Chem's OLED production factory in Heungdeok District in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, Korea on August 24. One employee was killed and 14 others were injured.

Source: 
Korea Herald
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LG OLED
OLED TV
Posted: Jan 14,2015 by Ron Mertens

Comments

Submitted by polanofesky (not verified) on Wed, 01/14/2015 - 20:03

I`M afraid Samsung who does it , to cut down lg oleds production .

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/14/2015 - 20:29

LG P8 factory is making LCD TV's. LG M2 factory is making OLED TV's.Am I correct?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/15/2015 - 09:50

Actually I was wrong. M2 is not a factory, it is a production line.

But the M2 line is built inside the P9 factory at Paju. So that is good news for OLED TV's.

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