“Apple Inc. supplier Pegatron Corp reported an explosion at a subsidiary’s plant in Shanghai over the weekend that it said had injured 61 workers, the latest in a series of incidents that have spotlighted safety concerns at factories in China,” Clare Jim and Argin Chang report for Reuters.
“Pegatron Chief Financial Officer Charles Lin told Reuters on Monday that the explosion at the plant, which belongs to Riteng Computer Accessory Co and is located in Shanghai’s Songjiang industrial park, had not caused a fire, but 23 of the injured workers needed to be hospitalized,” Jim and Chang report. “‘The factory has not started operations yet. Part of the facility is still under pre-operation inspection and part is running trial production,’ Lin said.”
Jim and Chang report, “Apple said it was investigating. ‘Our hearts go out to the people who were hurt in Songjiang. We are working closely with Pegatron to understand the cause of this accident,’ said spokeswoman Carolyn Wu.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “GetMeOnTop” for the heads up.]
Sounds very similar to the explosion at Foxconn. New factory, some part of which is making parts for the iPad, which could mean a polishing unit creating aluminum dust which like any dust is explosive if not filtered and removed properly. Let’s hope everyone is alright, and it has nothing to do with Apple since the media seems to want to pull a Greenpeace on Apple there.
Wait a minute, you named your company Pegatron?
He’s Megatron’s whaling cousin.
Makes me laugh watching the Fandroids froth at the mouth. What they don’t realize is that Pegatron was a spin off of Asustek and supplies many in the electronics industry. However, if the title of these flame bait articles didn’t say Apple, nobody would care.
This isn’t news because the headline has Apple in it; it is news because there has been an ongoing problem with those plants. It has nothing to do with Apple; it has to do with humans suffereing, and it is sad regardless of who they work for or who they supply.
Agreed, it is sad. But its news value is pumped up by attaching ‘Apple’ to the headline.
It was bad when the workers were committing suicide, now the factories are doing it too.
That’s funny! Not funny at all, but hilarious.