SEOUL/OSLO, May 1 (Reuters)– Six individuals passed away as well as greater than 20 were hurt when a crane broke down at a Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea on Monday, Yonhap News Agency claimed.

The case occurred throughout the building of an oil system for French power business Total’s Martin Linge area offNorway The degree of any kind of damages to the system was not right away clear, a Total representative in Norway claimed.

Total as well as Samsung Heavy claimed it was additionally unclear just how the case could influence distribution of the system, which was anticipated to begin creating oil as well as gas in the North Sea in 2018.

“It’s too early to say what would be the consequences for delivering the platform, but for the time being all work at the yard has been stopped and the investigation is ongoing,” claimed Leif Harald Halvorsen, a representative for Total’s Norwegian subsidiary.

South Korea’s Yonhap claimed 22 individuals were hurt, consisting of 3 badly.

“The crane fell onto the platform’s well bay module, where the people were working,” Halvorsen claimed.

No Total workers were eliminated or hurt in the case, which occurred around 0545 GMT at the shipyard in Geoje, he included.

Total has a 51 percent risk in the Martin Linge certificate, while Norwegian state-owned Petoro has 30 percent as well as Statoil 18 percent. (Reporting by Heekyong Yang in Seoul as well as Nerijus Adomaitis in Oslo; Editing by Dale Hudson)

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