Foxconn Chengdu Plant Has Explosion and Fire, Killing Two
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Foxconn Technology Group, maker of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and Dell Inc. computers, had an explosion and fire at a plant in southwest China’s Sichuan province yesterday that killed two people and injured 16.
The blast on Foxconn’s Chengdu campus occurred at about 7 p.m. local time, Edmund Ding, a company spokesman, wrote in an e-mail today. The fire department has the incident under control, and the company is cooperating with an investigation and contacting the families of affected workers, he said.