By Bahk Eun-ji

The Kia Motors plant in Gwangju failed to report the largest number of industrial accidents in the country over the past few years, said the Ministry of Employment and Labor Friday.

The ministry made public the names of 243 companies where industrial accidents often occurred and neglected their duty to report them to the government-run website, www.moel.go.kr.

Among them, the Kia Motors plant located in Gwangju failed to report industrial accidents in the workplace 90 times from 2010. Investigators interviewed employees and inspected local hospital records to obtain their data.

Of 199 companies on the list, Yoosung Enterprise's Yeondong Plant was picked as the workplace of the most frequent accidents, taking up 24.45 percent of the total.

A laboratory construction site of Samsung Electronics came next with 7.19 percent.

On the list, 30 factories were named as where the most fatal accidents have occurred. LG Chem Cheongju plant is where the most fatal accidents have happened, as eight workers were killed after a storage drum containing toxic waste exploded at the plant. A leakage of toxic chemical at Hube Global chemical plant in Gumi also killed five workers.

The ministry said it will strengthen supervision of those plants with habitual industrial accidents and hold them accountable.

The ministry has disclosed the names of companies that failed to report accidents over 10 times from 2004. A total of 2,087 plants have been put on the list.