More Details on the Death of the Third iPad Factory Worker Emerged

After the reports on the Foxconn plant explosion last week, another employee was found dead and more labor concerns emerged.
Foxconn reported that a third employee died due to injuries from the explosion last May 20 inside an iPad factory. It also has been announced that 15 others were injured, and six of them had already been released from the hospital.
The company is currently investigating the cause of the accident, but said that the initial findings revealed that “the accident was caused by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct.” Foxconn also added that the combustible dust originated in “one of the polishing workshops at our company’s Hongfujin Precision Electronics (Chengdu) Co. Ltd. facility in Chengdu.”
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