Incident Tag: Inspection Fraud
Dirty Frying Pans: An investigation of labor abuses in five Chinese cookware factories (Anotech)
Over exhausted workforce sleeping next to machines in the workshop. Their safety “equipment distributed is insufficient”. On the day of the investigation “a worker’s hand was smashed by a pressing machine”.
Dirty Frying Pans: An investigation of labor abuses in five Chinese cookware factories (Linkfair)
Fingers crushed and other hand injuries occur in Linkfair factory where workers toil with limited occupational safety. “During high season, workers will have a shift every day of the month without rest, including daily overtime (accumulating between 124 – 154 hours/month, between three and four times the Chinese legal maximum). “When the factory is unable to pay insurance, management will give workers 100 RMB ($16) to lie to government inspectors.”
Dirty Frying Pans: An investigation of labor abuses in five Chinese cookware factories (Three A)
Polishing workers are exposed to black dust and fumes without wearing masks, or other health and safety equipment. The company provides them with such, only when there’s an outside inspection.
Dirty Frying Pans: An investigation of labor abuses in five Chinese cookware factories (Xinhui Ri)
Despite a Pledge by Samsung, Child Labor Proves Resilient
14 and 15 year old girls interviewed say their factory makes them hold false papers to hide their age, so they can be allowed work.
The Other Side of Fairy Tales (Zhenyang)
Devastating sweatshop conditions with workers exposed to toxic chemicals such as industrial alcohol and acetone, or extremely loud machines. Factory’s industrial waste water is discharged directly into a nearby river without treatment.
The Other Side of Fairy Tales: An investigation of labor conditions at five Chinese toy factories (Combine Will)
The Other Side of Fairy Tales: An investigation of labor conditions at five Chinese toy factories (Winson)
Lack of protective equipment, while workers exposed to toxic chemicals. Workload reaching 11 hours/day, 6 days/week. Cramped dormitories containing 12 people/room.
The Other Side of Fairy Tales: An investigation of labor conditions at five Chinese toy factories (jetta)
Low wages and lack of safety precautions among other problems at toy factory.