Szeged Mayor Laszlo Botka C visits BYD’s new power passenger car manufacturing unit in Szeged, Hungary, April 21, 2026. (Picture by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua through Getty Photos)
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A second employee has died on the development web site of BYD’s electrical car manufacturing unit in Szeged, Hungary, CNBC has discovered.
The fatality — which follows a dying on the web site in February — comes after BYD govt vp Stella Li earlier this month denied allegations of labor abuse on the web site, and informed CNBC the automaker welcomed labor inspectors. Shenzhen-based BYD didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon the newest fatality.
This employee died on June 18 after resuscitation makes an attempt by paramedics failed, Hungary’s Nationwide Ambulance Service informed CNBC on Monday, including that a number of emergency items, together with a rescue helicopter, had been dispatched to the scene of the incident.
Native media reported that the employee had been struck by a lorry on the development web site of the manufacturing unit. Authorities are investigating the circumstances of the incident, in accordance with an announcement from the Csongrád-Csanád County Authorities Workplace on Wednesday.
AIM Development Hungary Ltd. — a subsidiary of the development firm linked to a 2024 labor scandal at BYD’s EV manufacturing unit in Brazil — was fined 34,500,000 forints ($110,350) over occupational safety points, the Csongrád-Csanád County Authorities Workplace stated in response to CNBC’s request for touch upon the second employee dying.
AIM Development was additionally warned over a set of different violations, together with late worker registration, violations of working time framework laws, and “formal defects” in employment contracts, the county authorities workplace added.
Two different companies had been additionally discovered to be non-compliant. LÉVAI-SECURITY Ltd. was fined for using staff with out correct registration, whereas Plusz Kéz Ltd. obtained warnings over labor supervision points.
Earlier this yr, New York-based watchdog China Labor Watch revealed a report alleging pressured labor at BYD’s Szeged manufacturing unit development web site, together with reviews of staff who had seven-day work weeks and had wages withheld.
BYD started transferring manufacturing equipment into the positioning in January, in accordance with earlier remarks to CNBC by BYD’s Li, with full manufacturing anticipated within the third quarter of 2026.
