ANOTHER DEATH: Police say a Foxconn employee jumped to his death Wednesday from a company-rented apartment building in southwest China’s Sichuan province.
THE COUNT: At least a dozen Foxconn Technology Group employees have jumped to their deaths or tried to do so since 2010, casting spotlight on the world’s largest contract maker of electronics.
ABOUT FOXCONN: The plants turn out iPhones, iPads, Xbox video game consoles, Dell and Hewlett-Packard computers. The Taiwan-based company has been besieged with reports of poor working and living conditions for its workers at factories and dorms.
