IPhone Assembly Workers in China Turn Ill From Fumes, ABC Says
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Chinese workers assembling Apple Inc. laptops and iPhones have become ill from breathing chemicals, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported today, citing unidentified patients.
The employees, some of whom have been hospitalized for more than six months, are being treated at the Number Five People’s Hospital in Suzhou city in eastern China after they breathed in fumes from the chemical n-hexane while gluing and polishing logos on Apple products, the report said. The fumes led them to be dizzy, numb and unable to walk, according to the report.