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Article

11 Jul 2006

Author:
Stephen Frost, CSR-Asia

Hot weather leads to death in textile factory [China]

[T]he death of female worker Liu Yunfang on 3 July from heat stroke in a textile factory in Fujian has sparked concern over the kind of conditions under which some workers labour in such hot weather...The factory at which the woman died is referred to...as...Fujian Changlong Textile Factory...The crux of the problem in this case is threefold: whether the death can rightly be classified an industrial injury; the level of compensation due to Liu Yunfang’s family and complaints from some of the 1,000 workers employed there that the workplace is very hot indeed and heat stroke is not uncommon...It seems entirely possible that customers (retailers) and consumers in the US and Europe are wearing clothes made using yarn produced by a company in which a woman has died of heat stroke and others work in conditions that are not fit for human labour...I contacted the Fujian Changlong Textile Co. Ltd. for their comment on this story on Saturday 8 July via the website comment box, but they have as yet failed to respond.