More than 100 garment workers in two factories faint en masse
More than 100 garment and shoe factory workers fainted in two separate incidents Thursday, the first reported factory faintings of the year, according to local officials. Eighty-two garment workers fainted at the Crystal Martin factory in Kandal province after inhaling fumes from leaking battery acid, a district official said. Khieu Sok Narth, the deputy governor of Ksach Kandal district, said the acid began flowing from a battery that powers a crane to lift clothes out of treatment tanks, which caused the workers to faint en masse. “We have sent some of the workers who fainted to the district referral hospital and some were sent to the [Vihear Sour] commune health center to be revived,” Mr. Sok Narth said, adding that two of the workers were sent to Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh because their condition was serious. … In Kompong Speu province’s Samraong Tong district, 26 workers at the Japanese-owned Shimano shoe factory fainted, which a union official blamed both on the inhalation of glue fumes and low wages. Yang Sophoan, president of the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions, said after a few workers began to faint, it set off a domino effect. …
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