Archives: Incidents
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| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/02/2007 | CKL Electronics Co. Ltd. (Part Of APCB) (Supplier Of Apple) (Supplier Of Acer) (Supplier Of Dell) (Supplier Of Hewlett-Packard (HP)) (Supplier Of NEC) (Supplier Of Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited) (Supplier Of Delta Group) (Supplier Of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) (Supplier Of Fujitsu) (Supplier Of Siemens) (Supplier Of Toshiba) (Supplier Of Sony) | 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 | |
| 01/02/2007 | Delta Electronics (Thailand) Public Company Limited (Part Of Delta Group) (Supplier Of Acer) (Supplier Of Apple) (Supplier Of Dell) (Supplier Of Fujitsu) (Supplier Of Siemens) (Supplier Of Sony) (Supplier Of NEC) (Supplier Of Hewlett-Packard (HP)) (Supplier Of Toshiba) (Supplier Of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)) | Labor concerns at factory (about 12,000 employees) manufacturing electronic components: contract workers discriminated vis-à-vis regular workers; wages not sufficient to cover living expenditures; LCD workers solder lead and inhale the smoke; accident reported in 2001 were 6 people died after building collapse. | Thailand | SOMO | Deaths, Discrimination, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
| 01/12/2005 | (Suppliers Of Acer) | Serious problems in 5 Acer suppliers; work 72 hours/week during peak season at factory in Philippine's; workers complain over not having a single day off for months in Chinese supplier; most worker wages are insufficient to cover living expenses; workers exposed to chemical dust and welding smoke. | China and Philippines | SOMO | Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard, Union Repression, Unpaid Overtime | |
| 01/05/2011 | KPR Mill (Supplier Of Primark) (Supplier Of Tesco) (Supplier Of Garan) (Supplier Of Jansen Textil) (Supplier Of Ernsting’s family) (Supplier Of Charles Veillon) | Workers employed under the Sumangali Scheme at apparel factory; severely restricted of their freedom of movement; have not received their due lump sum amount; long hours, unsafe environment and child workers between 2007-2009. | Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India | SOMO | Abusive Management, Child Labor, Excessive Work Hours, Occupational Hazard | |
| 31/08/2012 - 01/05/2012 | Intops (Tianjin) Electronics Co., Ltd. (Supplier Of Samsung) | Legal violations at factory (about 1200 workers) manufacturing cell phone casings: about 100 hours/month of overtime during low season; about 150 hours/month during peak season; low base wage (1310 RMB - $206); workers dependent on overtime in order to make a living wage; no protective masks for workers in contact with printing fumes; physical pat downs from security guards; verbal abuse. | Jinnan, Tianjin, China | China Labor Watch | Abusive Management, Beatings & Violence, Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
| 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 | |
| 20/04/2010 | (BP (Beyond Petroleum)) (Transocean) (Cameron International) (Halliburton) (Mitsui Group) (QBE Insurance) (Anadarko Petroleum) | Drilling rig 'Deepwater Horizon' on lease to BP explodes and catches fire - 11 killed, 17 injured; 4.9 million oil barrels leaked; local wildlife, fishing and tourism immensely damaged; potential health hazards for clean-up workers and coastal residents; multiple lawsuits for companies involved; BP pleaded guilty to criminal charges; reparations and damages - over £20 billion. | Gulf of Mexico | US Department of Justice, Business & Human Rights Resource Center, Financial Times | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Occupational Hazard, Pollution | |
| 19/08/2014 | (Suppliers Of Telenor Group) | Telenor finds incidents of child labor (as young as 12 years of age) at suppliers helping it build Myanmar’s first national mobile phone network. | Myanmar | Financial Times | Child Labor, Occupational Hazard | |
| 23/02/2011 | United Win Technology Limited (Supplier Of Apple) (Supplier Of HTC) (Supplier Of Nokia) (Supplier Of Motorola) (Subsidiary of Wintek Corporation) | 137 workers poisoned following exposure to n-hexane, a chemical used to clean mobile screens, Apple acknowledges. Other sources claim higher worker number. Workers hospitalized. Symptoms included nervous damage, muscular weakness or atrophy, paralysis, dizziness and others. Incidents begun mid-July 2009. | Suzhou, Jiangsu, China | BBC, Wikileaks, The Guardian | Injuries & Diseases, Occupational Hazard | |
| 31/12/2012 - 01/01/2012 | (Suppliers Of Apple) | Child labor, as well cases of excessive working-hours, hazardous waste and emissions, dangerous occupational environments, discrimination, and bonded labor found in audit of factories in 14 different countries initiated by Apple on its own supply chain. | International | Apple, Financial Times | Child Labor, Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Labor, Occupational Hazard, Pollution |