Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry) plants in Shenzhen, China reportedly have seen many of their workers develop leukemia because of long-term operations in the presence of electronic cleaners.
Commenting on the issue, Foxconn pointed out that the company will provide employees who have become ill with medical and financial assistance. But it claimed the ill employees are from different departments and do different jobs, and Foxconn has long stopped using chemicals such as benzene or hexane at the plants.
Since 2010, a total of 13 employees aged 19-24 at Foxconn's Shenzhen plants have been diagnosed with leukemia and five of them have already died, according media reports. China's labor organizations and family members of the ill employees believe the illness could have been caused by the electronics cleaners.
Article translated by Joseph Tsai
