Archives: Incidents
Filter tag: Negligence(clear filter)
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/05/2016 | Ganzizhou Rongda Lithium Co., Ltd. | Tibetans protest over environmental damage caused by mining company: leaked chemicals; pollution of Lichu river; dead fish from poisoned water; dead cows. | Dartsedo County, Kardze, Tibet | Free Tibet | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 15/06/2017 | (International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) (Intel Corporation) (Motorola) (Hewlett-Packard (HP)) (Texas Instruments) | Companies in the semiconductor industry accussed of outsourcing chip manufacture using the highly toxic chemicals "ethylene glycol ethers", or EGEs in South Korea after 1995, when such substances were banned in their domicile for causing diseases such as cancer, miscarriages, leukemia, infertility and others. | South Korea | Bloomberg | Fraud, Injuries & Diseases, Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
| 03/08/2017 | (Sony) (Apple) (Blackberry) (Samsung) | Report accuses electronics companies for: holding a large voting bloc on most U.S. green standards groups; consistently opposing repair and reuse designs for their products; instead approve criteria they can easily achieve and earn green certificates. | United States | Repair.org, Motherboard.VICE | Consumer Deception, Lobbying, Negligence, Pollution | |
| 16/01/2012 | KS Drilling (Subsidiary of KS Energy) | Two KS Drilling workers die after 'KS Endeavor' jackup rig explodes during drilling of an exploration well for Chevron. | Nigeria | Reuters | Deaths, Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
| 13/07/2011 | (Suppliers Of Abercrombie & Fitch) (Suppliers Of Adidas) (Suppliers Of Bauer Hockey) (Suppliers Of Calvin Klein) (Suppliers Of Converse) (Suppliers Of Cortefiel) (Suppliers Of H&M (Hennes & Mauritz)) (Suppliers Of Lacoste) (Suppliers Of Li-Ning) (Suppliers Of Meters/bonwe) (Suppliers Of Nike) (Suppliers Of Phillips Van Heusen (PVH)) (Suppliers Of Puma) (Youngor Textiles Factory) (Suppliers Of Youngor) (Well Dyeing Factory Limited) | Chinese conglomerate supplying leading brands discharged hormone-disrupting chemicals and other toxins into the country's major water systems, according to Greenpeace. | Yinzhou, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China | Greenpeace, The Guardian | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 20/01/2011 | (Apple) (Nokia) (LG) (Ericsson) (Singtel) | Group of 36 Chinese environmental groups issue report, accusing electronics companies, especially Apple, of failing to address concerns over pollution and worker health issues in factories supplying its components. | China | Financial Times | Injuries & Diseases, Negligence, Occupational Hazard, Pollution | |
| 18/09/2006 | Apple | Laboratory test reveals highest level of a type of toxic flame retardant, tetrabromobisphenol A, in Apple's MacBooks. | Denmark | Greenpeace | Negligence | |
| 18/09/2006 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) | Laboratory tests reveal high levels of toxic chemical decaBDE in HP laptops, despite HP claims of having removed decaBDE from its products years ago. | Denmark | Greenpeace | Consumer Deception, Negligence | |
| 23/05/2005 | (Apple) (Hewlett-Packard (HP)) (Sony) (Nokia) (Dell) (Fujitsu) (Siemens) (International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) (LG) (Motorola) (Panasonic) (Toshiba) (Supplier Of Samsung) | Greenpeace accuses major electronics companies for using unrecyclable and toxic materials in their products causing pollution and health hazards in poor Asian countries where electronics are discarded. | India and China | Greenpeace, (2) | Negligence, Pollution | |
| 09/12/2013 | Pegatron Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Child worker (15 years old), among other sudden deaths of workers at Pegatron factory primarily making iPhone 5s and tablet PCs. Pegatron never carried out in-depth investigations into the causes of death after the incidents occurred. | Shanghai, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Negligence |