How Were Their Fingers Injured?
According to a Guangdong media that published a report on job related injuries in 1998, in the Long Gang and Baoan areas in Shenzhen, there were more than 10,000 accidents, mostly resulting in broken fingers. This got the attention of the central government. Four ministries and commissions of the central government established an investigative group. At that time, the situation was quite serious. In the Qinghai Electrical Machinery Plant in Shajing town of Baoan district, Shenzhen, within half year, 48 workers were involved in an onthe-job injury that resulted in at least one broken finger. This media also reported that starting from 1998, the local department of labor had stopped collecting statistics about job related injuries. There are at least 30,000 finger injuries per year in the Pearl River Delta area. This accounts for more than 40,000 fingers cut off by machine. This was Zeng Feiyangs estimate. This is how he did the estimate: Five volunteers were assigned to visit workers in
