The worker was operating the forklift alone when they collided with a structure behind them. Their neck then became trapped between the forklift and the structure.<\/p>\n
\n Coupang trucks are parked near the e-commerce platform’s logistics center in Seoul on Dec. 29, 2025.
\n YONHAP\n <\/p>\n
A worker was taken to a hospital while unresponsive on Sunday after they became trapped in a forklift at a Coupang logistics center in Gwangju, Gyeonggi, police said the same day.<\/p>\n
The worker was operating the forklift alone inside the logistics center when they collided with a structure behind them, according to the Gwangju Police Station. Their neck became trapped between the forklift and the structure.<\/p>\n
Firefighters responding to the accident transported the unresponsive worker to a hospital.<\/p>\n
Police are investigating the exact circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n
\u00a0BY JUNG SI-NAE [lee.soojung1@joongang.co.kr]<\/p>\n
This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The worker was operating the forklift alone when they collided with a structure behind them. Their neck then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[426],"class_list":["post-129175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-coupang","tag-coupang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}