A worker at Foxconn Technology Group, which makes iPhones and iPads, fell to his death yesterday from a building in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen — the eighth fatality this year at the world’s largest contract maker of electronics, state-run media reported.
The previous deaths were deemed suicides, but it wasn’t immediately clear what caused the most recent one. The worker was identified as Nan Gang, 21, reported Xinhua news agency, quoting a city police spokesman, Huang Jianwei. No other details were provided.
The death will likely raise more questions about working conditions at Foxconn’s massive complex, which labor activists allege has a long history of mistreatment of workers. They claim workers — which total about 300,000 — are pushed hard, toil under tremendous pressure and face harsh discipline for making mistakes.
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There was no immediate comment about yesterday’s death from Foxconn, owned by Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. The corporate behemoth has also produced computers for Hewlett-Packard Co, PlayStation game consoles for Sony Corp and mobile phones for Nokia Corp.
After a suicide earlier this month, Foxconn said its workers enjoyed world-class treatment. Company spokesman Arthur Huang said in an e-mail that Foxconn carried out social responsibility programs to ensure the welfare of its employees.
Recent suicides include a 24-year-old male factory worker surnamed Lu who jumped from a building inside the factory complex earlier this month.
The highest-profile death happened last July when Sun Danyong, 25, jumped to his death after being interrogated over a missing iPhone prototype. Sun was responsible for sending the device to US-based Apple Inc.
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