Indonesian migrant worker crushed in fatal Chiayi workplace accident

Taipei, June 23 (CNA) A 30-year-old Indonesian migrant worker died Monday after being crushed by an iron pipe while working in a factory in an industrial zone in Chiayi County.

The county's Fire Bureau told CNA that they received a report around 1:20 p.m. about an occupational incident at a factory in the Minsyong Industrial Park, where a worker was said to be pinned under an iron pipe.

Rescue personnel found the worker in a state of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest after arriving at the site.

He was given emergency treatment on-site and then taken to Chiayi Christian Hospital for further resuscitation, but was later pronounced dead.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.