HoT NEWS Fatal Explosion Rocks Foxconn iPad Production Plant [video]

[Sitlay]

An explosion has occurred inside Foxconn's iPad manufacturing plant. The cause of the blast and number of causalities is still unknown.

"the explosion occurred in the A05, at 7 pm, the explosion caused many materials casted out from the building, and there are at least hundreds or more of workers inside the building. The whole building did not collapse yet, I do not know what is going on inside. Now there are more than 10 fire engines, 10 ambulances, many police cars."

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The outside scene of the hospital where explosion injurers are treated.



The outside scene of the ward where explosion injurers are treated at a hospital in Chengdu.



Police cars were seen.


A rescue vehicle runs toward the site where the blast occurred.


The father of an explosion injurer is seen beside the injurer in a ward of a hospital.


Those are the photos took at outside of the Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital. And the 2nd explosion still has not occurred yet. But the good news is:

“The situation has been brought under control by the fire department and the cause of this explosion is being investigated by local police officials. Foxconn is cooperating fully with that investigation.”

Foxconn has sent Gizmodo official details on the accident:

We can confirm that at approximately 7 pm on May 20, there was an explosion at our Chengdu campus. At this point, we can also confirm that there were two fatalities with injuries to 16 other employees. We are working with medical officials to provide treatment to the injured employees and we are working with government and law enforcement officials to contact the families of all employees affected by this tragedy.

The situation has been brought under control by the fire department and the cause of this explosion is being investigated by local police officials. Foxconn is cooperating fully with that investigation.

Production has been suspended at the site of the explosion until the completion of the investigation. The safety of our employees is our highest priority and we will do whatever is required to determine and address the cause of this tragic accident.

Now reporting that so far two people have been declared dead and 16 injured, 3 of them seriously.

UPDATE

A third worker has died due to an explosion at Foxconn Technology Group's Hongfujin Precision Electronics (Chengdu) Co. facility.

Foxconn can confirm that, sadly, a third employee has died from injuries from the May 20 explosion at one of the polishing workshops at our company’s Hongfujin Precision Electronics (Chengdu) Co. Ltd. facility in Chengdu.

Fifteen other employees were injured in that accident and six of those employees have been treated and released from the hospital. Foxconn is working with medical professionals and the local government to ensure that all of the injured employees receive the highest quality medical treatment. Our condolences go out to the families of the deceased employees and they are being given the full support of the company. Our thoughts are also with the injured employees and their families who are also being given the full support of our company at this very difficult time.

The cause of this tragic accident is still being investigated by a joint investigation task force led by government officials and law enforcement authorities, but that task force has communicated initial findings that the accident was caused by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct. Foxconn is cooperating fully with all relevant government bodies to carry out a full investigation into the specific root cause of the accident and the company is taking all necessary actions to ensure the safety of employees at this and all other production facilities.

All operations at the affected workshop remain suspended and production at all other workshops that carry out similar processing functions have also been halted pending the results of the investigation into the cause of the Chengdu accident. All other production operations in our facilities in China continue operating normally.

Foxconn Technology Group will provide updates on this tragic accident as information becomes available.

On Friday Apple made a statement regarding the explosion and offered its condolences to the families of the victims.

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[D3xus]

Damn that bites... Hope the injured feel better.

[Sitlay]

video added

[BURNTHEPRIEST]

I wonder if one of the employees was suicidal and decided to take everyone else out for the mistreatment he received there...

[Gawernator]

That's sad

[barnmore]

NO! This is gonna really inhibit Apple's ipad production.
I hope everyone's alright. Could've been an attack by another 'unhappy' employee

[GorgonSin]

ipad2s are not jailbreakable anyway so who cares...lol

[Gawernator]

Originally Posted by GorgonSin

ipad2s are not jailbreakable anyway so who cares...lol

Lol!

[Heist]

Damn, so now instead of jumping out of windows and off roofs - they've resorted to blowing themselves up!

[Sitlay]

Update 23,May,2011

[Heist]

^^^FAIL

[Sitlay]

Originally Posted by Heist

^^^FAIL

What..........?