The blaze began after a series of battery cells exploded inside a warehouse, a local fire official. It’s unclear what triggered the explosion A powerful explosion set on fire a lithium battery factory in South Korea on Monday, killing 22 workers, most of them Chinese nationals, local fire officials said.
Emergency personnel work at the site of a deadly fire at a battery factory in Hwaseong, South Korea on June 24, 2024. A fire at a lithium battery factory in South Korea Monday killed at least 22 people, most of them foreign nationals, local officials said.
A fire at a lithium battery plant in South Korea has killed at least 22 people and injured eight. South Korean authorities said on Monday that they had recovered 22 bodies from the factory in Hwaseong, 45km (28 miles) south of Seoul, after earlier confirming that at least 16 workers had died in the blaze and three others were injured.
Some of these batteries have experienced troubling fires and explosions. There have been two types of explosions; flammable gas explosions due to gases generated in battery thermal runaways, and electrical arc explosions leading to structural failure of battery electrical enclosures.
Emergency personnel carry the body of a person killed in a deadly fire at a lithium battery factory on Monday. Photo: Reuters Calls to Aricell offices were unanswered.
Emergency personnel move the body of a person killed in a deadly fire at a lithium battery factory owned by South Korean battery maker Aricell, in Hwaseong, South Korea, June 24, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Hong-ji
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On 24 June 2024, in Hwaseong, South Korea, a lithium battery factory owned by Aricell caught on fire after several batteries exploded. The fire killed 23 workers and wounded eight more, mostly Chinese nationals.