Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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15/02/2007 | GP Battery International Ltd. (Supplier Of Toshiba) | Two cases of Cadmium intoxication and two of Cadmium poisoning found among 177 workers manufacturing primary and rechargeable batteries. At least 3 young female workers also died from kidney-related diseases. | Huizhou, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Occupational Hazard | |
01/02/2007 | CKL Electronics Co. Ltd. (Supplier Of Toshiba) | Labor concerns at electronics factory (850 workers): wages not enough to cover living expenditures; compuslory overtime between January-June; work over 60 hours/week; sometimes during peak season workers do two shifts (24 hours a day in total); exposure to hazardous chamicals with insufficient safety equipment; coughing and irritated skin; at least two cases have been found of workers having poisonous chemicals in their blood; frequent factory fires with insufficient fire protection. | Thailand | SOMO | Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Injuries & Diseases, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard |