Workshops Poisoning Shoe Factory Fined 100 Thousand

Wang Meizhu, a worker, worked in a leather shoe factory in Ouhai. He suffered from chronic severe benzene poisoning due to long-term exposure to benzene and other hazardous substances.

The factory was fined 100 thousand yuan by the local health bureau, but refused to enforce it. The Ouhai court has recently forced it to enforce it.

The shoe factory has used 406 glue, 146 glue, gasoline and other harmful substances in the production process, but has not declared the occupational hazards project to the Health Bureau.

The Health Bureau found that the factory did not provide wearable protective equipment to shop workers, nor did it set warning labels and Chinese warning instructions in the workshop.

According to workshop workers, they have not had any occupational health examination since they entered the factory.

Wang Meizhu, a worker, is working on shoes in the spray workshop for a long time. When he used shoes, he used high frequency gasoline and detergent.

In October 2007, the Ouhai District Health Bureau made an administrative penalty decision on the illegal activities of the leather shoes factory, ordered the factory to stop its occupational hazards and imposed a fine of 100 thousand yuan on it.

However, due to the fact that leather shoes factories did not perform during the statutory period.

Therefore, the Ouhai District Health Bureau therefore applies for enforcement.

The Ouhai court ruled in accordance with the law that the decision of the relevant administrative penalty made by the applicant's Health Bureau of Ouhai District of Wenzhou Municipality shall be enforced.

The reporter has learned that at present, there are more and more enterprises in the coastal areas such as bags, footwear, handicrafts and so on. Although they provide a lot of employment opportunities to workers to some extent, some enterprises still do not attach importance to occupational disease prevention and control. The labor rights and interests of toxic workers are often hard to guarantee.

This month coincides with the national safety production month. We hope that enterprises will pay attention to it, so that production and labor protection can be coordinated.