Overwork, Exhaustion to blame for mass fainting

About 50 workers at the M&V manufacturing factory in Kampong Chhnang province fainted yesterday morning due to overwork and exhaustion in the factory’s third fainting incident this year, officials said yesterday. Noun Sam Ol, Free Trade Union representative at M&V, said that the collapse of a final press section worker as she returned from the bathroom set off the fainting spree. … The factory sent the workers who had fainted to the provincial hospital and allowed all workers the rest of the day off without penalty, Sam Ol said. … Yin Nak, M&V’s administrative manager, denied that the factory’s environment had caused the fainting. …

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