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New China News Agency reported in Huizhou City, Guangdong GP super battery plant more than 100 employees cadmium poisoning incidents, 35 in Chongqing worker. One of the worker Huang of Chongqing before Ai, told this newspaper yesterday reflected, “After inspection, we are the body’s blood cadmium and urinary cadmium severely exceeded.”

It is learned that led to their hospitalization is a red chemical powder — Cadmium oxide (hereinafter referred to cadmium), the battery a chemical raw material.
Infected

, 28-year-old working girl to the GP Huang Ai only super battery factory workers have been 8 years, she told reporters yesterday, due to prolonged exposure to cadmium oxide, and she often feel headache, dizziness, bone pain, limb weakness and abnormal sense of smell. Last year in November, one preparing to leave the factory workers at their own expense to the Guangdong Provincial Occupational Disease Prevention Hospital inspection, they found the body of blood cadmium greatly exceeded, so people suddenly realize assembly plant workers, why they usually always feel physically unwell.

In January of this year, the assembly plant in Chongqing, more than 60 workers at their own expense to the hospital for examination, found blood cadmium exceeding two-thirds of the workers, when the problem has become serious until this year in May, GP super battery factory in Guangdong Province before inviting occupational control doctors are to collect blood samples.

After inspection, 35 in Chongqing workers, blood cadmium and urine cadmium exceeding the same time, a total of more than 100 factory workers, blood cadmium and urine cadmium exceeded. In Huizhou municipal government intervention, the end of June, they were admitted to the Guangdong Provincial Occupational Disease Prevention Hospital and Huizhou Central Hospital.

“But in the July 9, the factory coaxed our 18 individual force then discharged.” Yesterday, before Huang Ai said that the factory that they observe the object is cadmium poisoning, without hospital treatment, one year after the review, but also factory leaders asked us to go to work immediately.

Treatment

“In the not solve the problem, we adamantly refusing to go to work.” Huang Cai Ai told reporters that when he got married three years, no children, she was to pay a price too. She said that at present more than 10 hospital workers in Chongqing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, was then discharged workers are poisoned workers and other places, together with the hard-line stance against the factory.

“Now the factory heavily guarded, and on our strict surveillance.” Huang said, because the half-life of cadmium is 10 years to 30 years, they are very afraid of the future incidence of whom he did not know? And Huang have the same situation of workers in Chongqing, also 34, recently told reporters that they expressed the same fear. “Home can not come back, yet not dare to return to work in that workshop, we are at the end of the nightmare when ah!”

Yesterday, the reporter called the GP super battery factory Ministry of Personnel, a young lady not to be named, said that at present, the body does not apply to workers in the factory had a very good deal, hospital-patient, hospital discharge. If you want to understand the details have to go to corporate headquarters (Hong Kong) to go.

Yesterday, the reporter had been to the Chongqing municipal government and the Labor and Social Security Bureau to reflect this, at present, Huizhou city government and the Labor Board is seized of the matter, this newspaper will continue to focus on cadmium poisoning in Chongqing worker progress.

China will launch a new occupational safety and occupational health standards and requirements on examination of blood and urine cadmium cadmium to join. Earlier, huizhou GP super industrial health and safety and occupational health examinations, regular found about 110 human blood cadmium content exceeds domestic relevant departments, set standards and watch list, the employee need to leave the hospital for observation and prevent to contact. 22 people in two weeks contains quantity of cadmium has fallen to normal level, and other employees to discharge, the current situation is good. Affected employee in the appointed hospital medical expenses by huizhou GP super liable for payment, and huizhou GP as to the super also get paid employees. Batch Cadmium industrial accident is not above.

Workers response
This is not a physical examination, but the factory routine before because there are many workers at blood cadmium exceeds, out of workers to factory workers are required for blood and urine cadmium check. Cadmium, Factory workers, until the first three days, work for the workers agreed to factory inspection. And more than 1,000 workers only plant more than 500 people, it still has a lot of more than 500 people in the factory, not just into contact with cadmium employees. Check out there who are overweight, 121. This more than 100 workers from June 19, 20 in hospital, on June 28, some workers are required from the hospital. It also means they only 8 days in hospital, no two weeks. The hospital worker in 22 discharge cadmium-rich nor to normal. Other employee still exist aching, waist sour backache dizziness, headache wait for a symptom. Company will not pay to hospital staff, we have 1000 multivariate monthly income per month, now only send 400 yuan.
2 company statement

Huizhou GP super in 2001 has been approved by the international authentication, ISO14000 and license issuing agency is in that factory audit, safety, health and environment pollution and other aspects conforms to the international requirements. The third party audit report pollution levels in scope and every year.
Workers response
Although each year, but in the factory audit, temporarily notified prior to review the improvement, etc. Is approved by the old. Employee has not only in water, has workshop, until 2004 began with dust mask… Is this the safety and health of international and national standards?
3 company statement
Besides the ISO14000 certification, international recognition of huizhou GP all production procedure and super safety management are the Chinese national and comply with the laws and regulations of huizhou.
The statement
Huizhou GP super hires to receive proper training are arranged, explain the characteristics of cadmium in workshop, and post industrial safety and health education and remind personal code and sanitary posters. Huizhou GP
Super also had many doctors to arrange to explain the processing factory, cadmium and safety knowledge staff’s suspicions.