Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Factory closes down as workers pass out

Monday, 05 July 2010
By Mom Kunthear
The Phnom Penh Post

AUTHORITIES ordered the temporary closure of a garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday after 47 of its employees fainted while working.
Tep Bora, the chief of Boeung Tumpun commune, said 22 workers at the Pine Great (Cambodia) Garments factory collapsed on Friday, followed by 25 more on Saturday.
“We have decided to postpone [the operations of] the Pine Great factory for a period until they find the reason those workers fainted,” he said yesterday.
He added that a further 50 workers had reported headaches after shifts at the factory.

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