Worker deaths prompt arrests

[geovalin]

Mom Kunthear and Sean Teehan

The owner and a supervisor of a Phnom Penh marble warehouse are in police custody and will appear before a municipal judge today, after three of their employees were crushed to death on Tuesday night, police said yesterday.

The male owner – identified by local news website CEN as Chhoeng Toeurng Pinh, 46 – and a female manager of the Xin Yong Thai (Cambodia) Group Co Ltd warehouse in the capital’s Sen Sok district, were arrested after the 7pm incident, said Tum Chhan, an employee who witnessed the accident.

The owner and superviser are both Chinese nationals.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/worker-deaths-prompt-arrests

[ggt]

Ah...what did the Chinese owners have to do with the industrial accident?

Will their arrest help take care of the workers funerals and provide for the dead workers families?

Chinese invest in Cambodia at your own risk...

[mango66]

In the hell with this Chinese scrupless Investors !!

They should kill their people in China,

but not in other countries for their profit !!

[Ulic]

Sounds like the staff were not trained to unload the marble in a safe way.

Not sure arresting the management is the correct thing to do before a

full investigation but it will spur changes in training and safety equipment.