Foxconn supplies most of the production line of Apple, the most powerful name in the technology world. As it is known, the company has made huge investments in recent years to change the direction of production from China to India. However, it sometimes had problems in this process. Like the temporary shutdown in India in 2021. Today, the detailed report came to light.
India Apple factory shut down due to “extremely dangerous” security breach
The Indian Foxconn factory, one of Apple’s important production wings, was temporarily closed in 2021. The incident was closed without a detailed explanation, citing the rebellion of employees and pandemic conditions. The reports uncovered by the authorities at that time revealed the truth.
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According to the report, the Indian Foxconn factory was closed due to a security breach described as “extremely dangerous” for health. So much so that at that time, this shutdown also greatly disrupted the production of the iPhone 13 series. The problems in the report are listed as follows
- Worms in employees’ food
- Overcrowded dormitories without flush toilets for women (more than 30 people in one dormitory)
- Toilets without running water
- Lack of protective equipment (safety goggles, chemical resistant gloves and respirators)
- Failure of the ventilation system (leakage of toxic fumes into the working environment
- Extremely dangerous soldering process conditions for workers’ health
- Failure to provide workers with appropriate goggles to protect them from excessive light and infrared radiation
- 262 missing protection detections in 77 automatic machines and press machines
- Failure to have the industrial oven used in iPhone circuit boards tested by an authorized person
At the time, Apple’s spokesperson made the following statements without explaining these headlines;
We have addressed and acted on every issue raised in the government’s audit, and Foxconn has invested in significant improvements following the events. Through sometimes quarterly and sometimes weekly inspections, Apple and independent auditors tracked meaningful improvements at the plant through frequent visits and employee interviews.
