Archives: Incidents
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| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/09/2012 | Kingsoft | Internet post reveals 25-year-old employee was found dead in the office. Shortly before the post, Kingsoft’s subsidiary Kingsoft Internet uploaded a picture of an employee laying his head on the desk and sleeping, saying that employees were working overtime for an entire week for the release of new product. | China | China Labor Watch (6th par) | Deaths, Forced Overtime | |
| 31/10/2002 - 01/01/1999 | BaoCheng Group (Supplier Of Nike) (Supplier Of Adidas) (Supplier Of Reebok) (Supplier Of Clarks) (Supplier Of New Balance) | Workers kept in factory for 12,5 hours, work intensity and low wages drive people to illness, death and suicide. Female worker turned ill in November 1999. She was denied sick leave 3 times, and was found dead in the restroom. Since 1994, 14 workers have committed suicide. | Dongguan, Guangdong, China & Taiwan | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Excessive Work Hours, Injuries & Diseases, Leave, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard, Suicides, Unpaid Insurance, Unpaid Overtime | |
| 30/11/1999 - 01/07/1999 | Dongguan Elegant Top Shoes Co., Ltd (Supplier Of Clarks) (Supplier Of Reebok) (Supplier Of Fila) | 4 female workers attempted suicide; 2 dead, 2 injured. One of them, at age 16, after being scolded by her leaders for defects on her work became so embarrassed that she jumped from the tower . | Dongguan, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Abusive Management, Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Suicides | |
| 31/05/2011 - 01/05/2011 | Flextronics Ltd., Co. (Supplier Of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) (Supplier Of Dell) (Supplier Of Hewlett-Packard (HP)) (Supplier Of Motorola) (Supplier Of Microsoft) (Supplier Of Siemens) (Supplier Of Philips) (Supplier Of Alcatel) (Supplier Of TCLCorporation) | During peak season (June-October), workers must work 10.5 hours daily, 7 days/week. Working hours exceed 310 hours per month, including 130 hours of overtime. A 23-year-old male worker was recently killed in the warehouse when a vehicle loaded with products backed into him. | Zhuhai, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
| 19/07/2011 | Kingmaker Footwear factory (Supplier Of Clarks) (Supplier Of Timberland) | Sick worker, denied day-off to rest, dies of over-exhaustion during peak production period. | Zhuhai, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Deaths, Excessive Work Hours | |
| 21/05/2013 | Dongguan Jinchuan Electronic Company, Ltd. (Supplier Of ASUS) (Owned by 3CEMS) | 14-year-old worker (Liu Fuzong) at factory producing motherboards found dead by his co-workers on his dorm bed. | Dongguan, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Child Labor, Deaths | |
| 25/04/2013 | Samsung | Samsung admits using tin sourced from Bangka Island, where unregulated tin mining depends on child labour, wrecks the environment and kills an estimated 150 miners every year. | Bangka Island, Indonesia | The Guardian | Child Labor, Deaths, Occupational Hazard, Pollution | |
| 27/08/2014 | JCY International (Supplier Of Samsung) (Supplier Of Hitachi) (Supplier Of Western Digital) | Workers riot at JCY Int. factory, highlighting accusations of poor working conditions after the death of an employee. | Johor Malaysia | Reuters, Wall Street Journal | Deaths, Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
| 17/07/2001 | Motiva Enterprises (Co-owned by Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Co-owned by Saudi Aramco) | Leaking and corroded tank -unfit for use - explodes; one worker killed, many others injured; approximately 99,000 gallons of spent sulfuric acid spilled into Delaware river for days; thousands of dead fish and crabs; sulfuric acid released into the air. Criminal fines - $10 million. | Delaware City, DE, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Negligence, Pollution | |
| 10/06/1999 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Equilon Enterprises) (Olympic Pipeline Company) | Ill-maintained pipeline ruptures and releases over 230,000 gallons of gasoline and ignites - 3 people killed, including two ten-year-old boys; over 9 injured; home destroyed; resulting fire killed over 100,000 fish and other aquatic organisms; massive environmental damage on creeks and soil. Civil and criminal penalties on Shell and Olympic - $92 million. | Bellingham, WA, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Negligence, Pollution |