Mass Faintings Continue at Two Factories

26 July 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Labor
Cambodia / Chemicals / Fainting / Fair Labor Association / FLA / Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia / Hung Wah Garment Factory / ILO / International Labor Organization / Ken Loo / mass fainting / Ministry of Labor / Phnom Penh / Puma / Shoe factory / Storage System / working conditions

Workers at two different factories in Phnom Penh suffered mass fainting spells yesterday according to the Ministry of Labor and the factory officials. A Puma owned shoe factory 49 workers fainted and at the Hung Way garment factory another 64 workers fainted. The Puma factory will be closed until Thursday in order to put in a new storage system for chemicals that some believe to be the cause of the fainting spells.