Severed Fingers, The Price Of Prosperity?

Thirty thousand annual severed fingers, the price of prosperity in the Pearl River Delta?

Core tip: the director general of Guangzhou Panyu workers' documentation handling service division has made a rational estimate: "in the Pearl River Delta, there are at least 30 thousand finger breaking accidents every year, and more than 40 thousand fingers cut off by machines."

The price of prosperity?

A survey of the production and rights protection of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta. He points out that He Xiaobo, a migrant worker in Henan, has been cut off by a cutting machine every year for thirty thousand consecutive 30 hours of work in the Pearl River Delta.

What is a cut worker? The working hours are 12 hours, two shifts.

"36 hours of continuous work, sooner or later, it will break hands." Deng Hong 20 years old, Deng Yong 18 years old.

The two laugh very much alike. They are brothers when they see it.

If they take a group photo, the younger brother must stand on the right side.

Because the brother's right hand was broken, his brother's left finger was broken, and he was afraid to bump into it.

In March 2004, Deng Yong dropped out of school in the first day of her junior middle school and went to work in a die casting factory in Zhenxiong, Sanshui, Yunnan.

19 months later, Deng Yong introduced Deng Hongjin factory.

Later, their hands were crushed by the same die casting machine.

Deng Hong remembered his brother and his accident days: the year before October 25th and June 16th last year.

He also remembered that the bones of his hand were "stuck up like a pencil".

Deng Yong was even worse. He could not keep a finger.

The parents were half dead on the phone, but in the end, they did not ask Deng Hong to leave the dangerous factory.

The monthly salary of 800 yuan for die-casting workers is quite small for his family.

Earlier, Huang Qiaoyan, a law teacher at Zhongshan University, had conducted a survey and found that 73% of the work-related injuries were still aware of previous injuries.

Deng Hong is a handsome boy with long hair, jeans and a black T-shirt.

His severed fingers were scalded, wrapped in white gauze, hung around his neck with a boxing ring, and his surface was yellow and black.

The doctor's words made him think: "a man like you is very troublesome to find a wife."

Deng Hong told reporters: "disability.

In the old home, one hundred could not find one.

But this is not particularly odd.

Die casting factory, furniture factory, household appliance factory, one or two fingers are not normal in one year.

If you don't want to be private, your newspaper phone call will be broken. "

In the past six months, he has known less than 200 injured workers through his injuries.

The director general of the Panyu Ministry of labor documentation processing service (hereinafter referred to as "migrant workers") has made a rational estimate: "in the Pearl River Delta, there are at least 30 thousand finger breaking accidents every year, and more than 40 thousand fingers cut off by machines."

The "migrant workers" are mainly active in the Pearl River Delta. The purpose is to study the rights and interests of migrant workers in Guangdong, provide free legal help for the poor, and promote their rights and interests protection.

Over the past 10 years, they have sent volunteers to visit work-related injuries and sent free legal knowledge manuals.

This project is called work injury visit.

The estimated results are from work-related injuries.

Ceng Feiyang introduced: "the project has 5 fixed volunteers, each contact 4 fixed hospitals, each time in each hospital to complete at least 5 visits form, visit 3 times a month.

In the past 1 years, there are at least 3600 forms, that is, 3600 industrial accidents.

In the Pearl River Delta, there are more than 100 hospitals with hand surgery.

Over the past 10 years, these figures have been increasing. "

This estimate can not be officially verified because, as early as 10 years ago, the local labor department of our province no longer worked on the statistics of industrial accidents.

However, some labour experts recognized it.

Many references are quoted in the bookshops.

The number of surges surged, and the source of severed fingers in the hand surgery hospital made the hand surgery hospitals in the Pearl River Delta spring up.

When the mainland hospitals rarely set up specialized hand surgery, the billboard of the "hand surgery hospital" has become a special scene along the Pearl River Delta's cobweb like highway.

Through the Internet, the key word "finger hospital" can be searched at will, and thousands of hospitals will be introduced soon. Most of them are distributed in the Pearl River Delta.

Starting from Guangzhou, Beijiao Town, Shunde District, Foshan, which is famous for making small household appliances, arrived in London town after a 10 minute drive.

Known for its mechanical manufacturing, there is a prominent hand surgery hospital, Shunde peace trauma hospital.

It has just changed its name.

A few months ago, its name was more straightforward: Shunde and Ping surgery hospital.

The hospital covers an area of nearly 40 mu, and has 3 main buildings, artificial lakes and kiosk pavilions.

And 4 years ago, the predecessor of the hospital -- three Chau hospital hand surgery still crowded in a dilapidated 3 storey building office.

In 2004, more than 12 thousand patients were admitted to the hospital.

Sitting in a bus for about half an hour, you can go to the Nanhai Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, which has a history of 11 years of hand surgery.

The publicity materials of the hand surgery center are placed on the top shelf of the information rack.

The inpatient department is located on the 5 floor, 15 wards, each room can be 3 to 4 people, all live.

A female nurse told reporters: "bed should be booked ahead of schedule."

With the rapid development of Foshan Ceramic Industrial Park, Central Hospital of Foshan Chancheng District has also ranked the Department of hand surgery as the key department.

It's not just Foshan.

Since the establishment of the Guangzhou peace trauma surgery hospital, more than 6000 emergency and out-patient surgical patients have been admitted. Complex and rare replantation of severed fingers has reached the advanced international level in China.

Hengsheng hand surgery hospital, "a private hospital founded in 1993", "President Huang Weidong personally completed 3000 cases of hand surgery."

Dongguan Houjie Town is surrounded by countless electronic factories and shoe factories. Almost every village has a hand surgery hospital or clinic.

After a week's visit, the information on hand surgery has reached half a foot.

Pearl River Delta is becoming a paradise for specialists in hand surgery. "Work is easy to find, well paid, and can solve the problem of residence for spouses."

A Li surnamed hand surgeon sighed with the reporter: "20 years ago, many hospitals Department of orthopedics did not want to do finger surgery, then one finger severed for at least two or three hours. How many doctors?

Now, the surgery hospital has made a lot of money.

A severed finger usually costs 5000 yuan, tens of thousands a year, and a broken leg.

How big a market do you calculate? "

In the early days of reform and opening up, the Pearl River Delta region was eager to develop "three to 36" enterprises, and the import equipment was not strictly controlled. Many machines and equipment that were eliminated in Hong Kong and Taiwan came in, and some factory dates were changed.

A few years ago, when a court closed down the auction of a Hong Kong funded enterprise in Ping Di Town, Shenzhen, it was certified by experts that the equipment of the plant was released in the 20s of last century and has no value.

Machinery and equipment are obsolete, aging, and often fail, which will cause harm to workers.

The management representative of an enterprise in Sha Tin, Shenzhen, once acknowledged the reason why more than 40 employees had severed fingers, and admitted that "the safety problem of stamping equipment is aging, and it can not guarantee the safety of employees".

But is it just a machine that hurts workers?

Through industrial injury visits, Zeng Fei Yang concluded: "in addition to the machine itself, work-related injuries also include fatigue, lack of training, and the abandonment of safety protection by enterprises."

In May 17, 2006, Foshan Sheng Xiang coating company, He Xiaobo, a migrant worker who worked continuously for 30 hours, was cut off by a cutting machine by He Xiaobo.

What is a cut worker? The working hours are 12 hours, two shifts.

Where should the production supervisor work overtime?

"36 hours of continuous work, sooner or later, it will be broken."

After all, I think so.

Processing enterprises generally adopt piecework wage and overtime work to increase their income.

Workers worked overtime day after day, tired or even fainted, resulting in a series of industrial accidents.

Liu Tao, a Shenzhen woman worker who lost his arms and set up the highest wage amount of 3 million 410 thousand yuan in 2000, had been stranded off the carding machine after working overtime.

In contrast with fatigue work, some enterprises have given up the operation of safety protection.

In order to avoid work-related injuries, the state clearly stipulates that a safety protector must be installed in the punching machine.

However, many injured people don't even know what the safety protector is.

The reason why the boss refuses to install the safety protector is that the efficiency of the machine will be reduced and the profits created by the workers will be greatly reduced after it is installed.

Inadequate training and rush to work are common. Accidents happen frequently.

The state has clearly stipulated which training needs to be carried out, but many enterprises do not implement it, and many newcomers can be directly employed.

Long Songbai, 27, came from Yufeng village, Dragon City, Anjiang County, Hunan province. In September 17th last year, when he went to work in a cabinet factory in Luo Cun, Foshan, he was sawed off by his electric saw for fifth fingers on his left hand.

There are many difficulties in safeguarding rights and interests, which are enough to drag down migrant workers.

From July 2003, Professor Xie Zexian and Huang Qiaoyan of Guangdong University of Business and Zeng Fei Yang launched a work-related injury investigation.

They conducted a questionnaire survey of 582 work-related injuries in 38 hospitals and 1 occupational disease control hospitals in the Pearl River Delta region, covering areas including Shunde, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Huizhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Data show that 61.7% of the workers did not sign labor contracts with enterprises.

Most of the injured workers did not receive the wages during the medical treatment according to the regulations.

As for concerns from the government, trade unions, women's federations and so on, it is almost invisible.

Such examples are not uncommon beside us: when the injured workers claim, they have many obstacles to safeguarding their rights. They can only run back and forth between the labor department, medical institutions, insurance institutions and factories.

Huang Qiaoyan believes that the current labor dispute Arbitration Litigation System in China has played a positive role in the past, but now it affects the protection of the rights and interests of the workers.

"According to the current law, it is estimated to be one to two years from the confirmation of industrial injury to the end of litigation.

In fact, the factory and some local labor management departments and local judicial systems often use various means to force workers to go through all the policies and judicial procedures, apply the time limit to the maximum, and make them pay a great deal of time and economic cost, and they often end up losing compensation.

Zeng Fei Yang had worked as an enterprise legal adviser in his early years.

He said: "from a legal point of view, how long can an ordinary industrial injury case last?

1057 days.

The number of days is enough to drag a migrant worker down! "

In May 1st this year, the labor dispute mediation and arbitration law was enacted.

But Huang Qiaoyan said: "the law still upheld the second instance system and did not bring enough change."

In the long process of safeguarding rights, industrial injury people have to face many difficulties.

Long Songbai said, "when I found my boss making a claim for compensation 60 thousand, they said I was stealing money."

The lawyer of Guangdong Guangzhou Chizhong law firm, who has worked for many industrial injuries, said: "for work-related injuries, the identification of work-related injuries is the most critical and initial step.

But in this link, they will encounter many obstacles.

Because the labor department will require workers to provide cases, and there is evidence that you have labor relations with the enterprise, otherwise it will not be accepted. "

Job hunting is often difficult.

In order to get a job, many migrant workers do not sign labor contracts at all, or are forced to use fake identity cards or enter black factories without business licenses.

Therefore, it is often difficult for industrial injury victims to require the employer to add the official seal to the industrial accident report.

However, in recent years, workers' awareness and skills of safeguarding their rights are constantly improving.

Zeng Fei Yang said