Woman falls to death at Foxconn plant in C. China

Xinhua, September 26, 2011

A young woman fell to death from a dormitory building at Foxconn's plant in central China's Henan province Sunday afternoon, local authorities said.

Niu Xiaobei, an intern from a local technical school, slipped and fell from the sixth-floor of the building at 3:20 p.m. when she was trying to hang her laundry outside a window at the Foxconn complex in the city of Zhengzhou, the city government's information office said in a statement.

Foxconn, the world's largest maker of computer components, assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia. It was in the spotlight after a string of suicides of workers at its massive Chinese plants, which some blamed on tough working conditions.

The company currently employs 1.2 million people, with about 1 million of them based on the Chinese mainland.