A Third Employee Dies From Foxconn Explosion
A Foxconn worker has died from injuries from last week's explosion.
Last week a tragic explosion occurred inside Foxconn's Chengdu manufacturing plant. An initial statement from Foxconn confirmed that there were two dead and 16 other employees injured.
Now Foxconn has released an updated statement on the situation, confirming a third death as a result of injuries sustained during the incident.
Statement from Foxconn Technology Group
Update on the Tragic Accident at Foxconn Technology Group's Hongfujin Precision Electronics (Chengdu) Co. Facility
Foxconn can confirm that, sadly, a third employee has died from injuries from the May 20 explosion at one of the polishing workshops at our company's Hongfujin Precision Electronics (Chengdu) Co. Ltd. facility in Chengdu.
Fifteen other employees were injured in that accident and six of those employees have been treated and released from the hospital. Foxconn is working with medical professionals and the local government to ensure that all of the injured employees receive the highest quality medical treatment. Our condolences go out to the families of the deceased employees and they are being given the full support of the company. Our thoughts are also with the injured employees and their families who are also being given the full support of our company at this very difficult time.
The cause of this tragic accident is still being investigated by a joint investigation task force led by government officials and law enforcement authorities, but that task force has communicated initial findings that the accident was caused by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct. Foxconn is cooperating fully with all relevant government bodies to carry out a full investigation into the specific root cause of the accident and the company is taking all necessary actions to ensure the safety of employees at this and all other production facilities.
All operations at the affected workshop remain suspended and production at all other workshops that carry out similar processing functions have also been halted pending the results of the investigation into the cause of the Chengdu accident. All other production operations in our facilities in China continue operating normally.
Foxconn Technology Group will provide updates on this tragic accident as information becomes available.
The explosion happened at the A05 building of the Chengdu campus, which was one of the sites where Foxconn was building iPad 2 for Apple.
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when will Toms know that we simply don't give a living censor about who dies in foxconn anymore
They could have been building other tablets for other manufacturers as well, but sensationalism is best when you focus on a product that arouses the most emotion. ie. ipad 2.
when will Toms know that we simply don't give a living censor about who dies in foxconn anymore
Just another day at the office apparently........
This could have been prevented, these types of explosions are more common to coal mines and grain elevators than factories such as this. This could have been prevented had the dust been kept to a minimum that would not have caused this explosion.
Big deal, in China people care more about 3 or more job openings than 3 people dead, bass ackwards country
Money won't solve the families difficulties..
Agreed to all the people who don't care. Can we get some real news please?
More blood for the blood god
when will Toms know that we simply don't give a living censor about who dies in foxconn anymore
No, we just care about our technology like iPhones and such, not that people are dying or being worked to death so we can have these things.
ITT: Internet Tough Guys.
"ITT: Internet Tough Guys."
Nope, not really. I just couldn't care any less about who's dying over in china.
Thumbs up if you want Tomshardware to fix the rating system
iBoom
Yeah, anyone else notice we seem to have quite a few sociopaths posting here on comments.
The coldness regarding the deaths of these people making YOUR trifling gadgets is really sickening
"ITT: Internet Tough Guys."Nope, not really. I just couldn't care any less about who's dying over in china.
Why not? What difference does it make the fact that they are not in your country? Some people are not mature enough to value their own country without disregarding the rest...
Too bad
To those telling people they have blood on their hands stop and think. What do people on Tom's hardware complain about apart from DRM, Internet freedom and apple? I doubt most people here actually own a tablet and they are certainly right about apple products being used for sensationalism...
Perhaps the iPads themselves are the cause?? Anyone?
when will Toms know that we simply don't give a living censor about who dies in foxconn anymore
Speak for yourself ingrate.
i would ask those of you that care about this incident to please be respectfull of those of us who do not care ...
I would ask that those who do not 'give a living censor' about the death of another human being please refrain from commenting here, or interacting with decent people altogether.
The double burn with apple products is that for the price premium consumers pay for something with the apple logo, you'd really hope they could improve conditions or pay or anything for the lives of the workers who produce their products. Because Foxconn makes products for other companies, and the factory/ghettos don't also have the apple logo emblazoned across their buildings, Apple can create a cognitive dissonance between what its business practices are and how the company is perceived by their customers.
And all you proto-humans saying you do not care, please return to your caves and don't ever try to contact any homosapiens you previously knew you effing monkeys.
horrible things happen to the hard working people.... and I hate people that don't care... because of those who don't care bad things happen
i dont realy care, nor do i expect people from another country to care if im in such an incident. heck even from my own country. close friends and family are the people who are supposed to care in such situations, not random guy from the street.
but like any thing it could have been prevented if management were better. if management were strict on safety and actualy do inspections on a daily basis then this stuff can be prevented.
just cause a person doesnt care about people outside of his circle of people doesnt make them a "Evil" person. its just a person that doesnt see the reason why i should feel sorry for that person, i can feel sorry for the rest of my life with all the millions of people without food/houses, children without family etc....
ive just decided that no use in worrying about other people that have no connection to you whatsoever. else you gona be worrying for the rest of your life.
It'd take about 30 seconds for this many people to starve to death in China. Around 14 minutes for this many people to be killed in car accidents. 3 is a drop in the ocean of 1.4 BILLION people that live there.
It'd take about 30 seconds for this many people to starve to death in China. Around 14 minutes for this many people to be killed in car accidents. 3 is a drop in the ocean of 1.4 BILLION people that live there.
If a single life is so insignificant, why don't you give up yours? Are you truly that much of a dolt not to see this?
Thumbs up if you want Tomshardware to fix the rating system
My thumb is up!
I just can't get over the significant number of "creatures" posting here that have absolutely NO empathy for a fellow human being. There may not be anything you can do about these tragic incidents personally, BUT that you can't relate to another's grief and or pain is disturbing ! A person that lacks empathy IS defined today as a sociopath, plain and simple. But honestly I don't think these um "people" suffer from a mental illness or weakness, instead they are simply not human, and as such I guess all you can do is consider them "creatures" whom you'd do well to stay far away from.
If a single life is so insignificant, why don't you give up yours? Are you truly that much of a dolt not to see this?
And if I did, you wouldn't notice. My family would be effected, but the vast majority of people out there wouldn't even know that I ever existed. For you, probably the same. I care about the people I meet in my life more so than a lot of folks... I help my family, friends, and even the occasional random person in my community, but forgive me if I don't feel like I need to extend my apathy to every last random individual on the planet. My original post was simply putting things in perspective a little.
And stop pretending you care. You won't lose sleep on this either. But, of course, my not pretending makes me an evil sociopath, isn't that right?
forgive me if I don't feel like I need to extend my apathy to every last random individual on the planet.
LOL learn english. Your apathy is apparent. But the "I don't care" argument isn't sound when you people take the effort to post about how much you don't care, and take the effort to read replies about an article about which you don't care, and then post your own reply to that reply because you don't care.
The true is you do care, you care about your own little made up world where you live insulated from everyone who doesn't live within the confines of your insular bubble. Your actions also don't affect those outside your bubble, in any way shape or form. You sir, are truly special, wear a helmet.
@assmar
Foxconn is a supplier to most well known technology companies. Sony, Microsoft, Nokia, HP, Dell, Cisco, Asus, Intel, Acer, Nintendo, and many many others. Yet, every time something goes wrong over there it's Apple who's at fault?
I'm sick of these articles. They're stretching for negative publicity for Apple, and that's the ONLY reason why they're being put up here. They're a slap in the face of the readership's intelligence. And you're truly special for thinking this event has more significance to other possible news that could have been put up here.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't like Apple as a company... at all.
And you're right, I switched empathy with apathy. There's no edit button. Oh no! You understood me just fine anyway.