For 15 excruciating minutes, a Korean-speaking technician bled uncontrollably from his left thigh, trapped in a conveyor belt that had stripped the skin from his hand as if it were a glove.
Emergency medical responders described the 40-year-old man’s horrific wounds sustained at the construction site of Hyundai’s newest electric vehicle conglomerate: a crushed chest, a deformed hand and a mangled leg. After an emergency airlift to Savannah’s trauma hospital 30 miles away, they still didn’t know his name.
Three days later, on June 3, the site’s principal company Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) released a terse statement. A worker had been treated for severe internal and external injuries and was in stable condition. On June 5, the federal organization that oversees workplace safety finished an onsite inspection — but more than two months later, it has yet to assign any blame.
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