Three Indonesian workers were killed yesterday in an industrial accident at Formosa Plastics' Sixth Naptha Cracker plant in Mailiao, Yunlin County.
Preliminary reports said the workers died of asphyxiation while working on a pipe around noon yesterday. Argon and hydrogen gas leaked from pipes the workers were installing, officials said.
Police said that the bodies of the workers have already been taken to a mortuary for examination.
The workers had been hired by Korean subcontractor Daelim for construction of an aromatics facility within the sprawling complex.
800 foreign workers are employed at the aromatics plant construction site, according to a labor supervisor at Daelim.
Formosa Plastics and the Korean subcontractor that hired the workers will take full responsibility for the workers' deaths, police said.
Construction on the Mailiao plant began in 1993, and has been plagued with disputes between the large number of foreign workers of different nationalities at the plant. The most recent was a violent clash between Filipino and Thai workers at the Mailiao site last year that injured over 20 people.
Formosa Plastics is the largest employer of foreign laborers in Taiwan. As of last August, there were over 18,000 foreign workers at the Mailiao site, including over 8,534 Thais, 7,358 Filipinos, and 1,733 Indonesians.
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