{"id":9576,"date":"2010-02-22T20:53:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/worker-dies-from-n-hexane-poisoning-at-touchscreen-factory-that-also-makes-apples-screens-poisoning\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T20:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T20:53:31","slug":"worker-dies-from-n-hexane-poisoning-at-touchscreen-factory-that-also-makes-apples-screens-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/worker-dies-from-n-hexane-poisoning-at-touchscreen-factory-that-also-makes-apples-screens-poisoning.php","title":{"rendered":"Worker Dies From N-hexane Poisoning At Touchscreen Factory (That Also Makes Apple&#8217;s Screens) [Poisoning]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/wintek_dg_may2009_s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/56447_500x_wintek_dg_may2009_s.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Wintek, who supplies touchscreen components to Apple for the iPhone and iPod touch, just got \"exposed\" for \"hazardous work conditions.\" One of the most severe conditions? <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #nhexanepoisoning\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/nhexanepoisoning\/\">N-hexane poisoning<\/a>, which the company illegally used instead of alcohol to clean screens.<\/p><p>In August of 2009, 49 people were treated for N-hexane poisoning, with one dead. The BoingBoing post says that the worker died this weekend, so it seems like Wintek continued to use N-hexane even after they were punished from last year. 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N-hexane poisoning, which the company illegally used instead of alcohol to clean screens.In August &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/worker-dies-from-n-hexane-poisoning-at-touchscreen-factory-that-also-makes-apples-screens-poisoning.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}