Szeged Mayor Laszlo Botka C visits BYD’s new vitality passenger automobile manufacturing unit in Szeged, Hungary, April 21, 2026. (Photograph by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua by way of Getty Photos)
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A second employee has died on the development website of BYD’s electrical automobile manufacturing unit in Szeged, Hungary, CNBC has discovered.
The fatality — which follows a demise on the website in February — comes after BYD govt vice chairman Stella Li earlier this month denied allegations of labor abuse on the website, and advised 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 advised 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 website of the manufacturing unit. Authorities are investigating the circumstances of the incident, based on a press release from the Csongrád-Csanád County Authorities Workplace on Wednesday.
AIM Building 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 mentioned in response to CNBC’s request for touch upon the second employee demise.
AIM Building was additionally warned over a set of different violations, together with late worker registration, violations of working time framework rules, and “formal defects” in employment contracts, the county authorities workplace added.
Two different corporations have been additionally discovered to be non-compliant. LÉVAI-SECURITY Ltd. was fined for using employees with out correct registration, whereas Plusz Kéz Ltd. obtained warnings over labor supervision points.
Earlier this yr, New York-based watchdog China Labor Watch printed a report alleging pressured labor at BYD’s Szeged manufacturing unit development website, together with stories of workers who had seven-day work weeks and had wages withheld.
BYD started shifting manufacturing equipment into the location in January, based on earlier remarks to CNBC by BYD’s Li, with full manufacturing anticipated within the third quarter of 2026.
