iPhone assembly worker commits suicide by jumping off building
This is not the first time this has happened. In 2010, about 14 workers jumped to their deaths at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, forcing the company to install nets around the dormitories.
An unfortunate incident just happened at the Foxconn factory that assembles Apple products in China. A 31-year-old worker named Ming Li committed suicide on the factory premises in Zhengzhou. The victim lived in room 4-529 in the factory dormitory.
China Labor Watch (CLW) listed Ming Li's employee number as P4163866. It is unclear what led to the decision to end Ming's life. According to CLW, Ming Li had been working for Foxconn for two months.
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| About 14 workers jumped to their deaths at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen in 2010. Photo:PRI. |
This is not a new phenomenon at Foxconn factories in China. In 2009, a 25-year-old worker jumped out of a Foxconn dormitory to commit suicide after losing an iPhone prototype and being beaten and insulted by Foxconn security guards.
These suicides also peaked in 2010, when about 14 workers jumped to their deaths from buildings at Foxconn’s Shenzhen plant, prompting the company to install suicide-prevention nets around dormitories.
However, this measure did not solve the problem, as more than four victims were found dead in the same year, 2010. In November 2017, interns at Foxconn were found to have worked overtime, which is against Chinese law. Both Apple and China confirmed the information, but insisted that the interns had done the overtime voluntarily.
