Filipino worker dies of extensive burns suffered in factory fire
12/21/2020 01:33 PM
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Taoyuan, Dec. 21 (CNA) A Filipino migrant worker who sustained severe burns in a fire at a pharmaceutical factory in Taoyuan on Sunday has died of his injuries, a company spokesman said Monday.
The employee suffered third-degree burns over 90 percent of his body in the fire, which started around noon Sunday at the five-story factory of Sci Pharmtech Inc. in Taoyuan, spokesman Yang Wen-chen (楊文禎) said at a news conference.
On Monday the Filipino worker died, while another employee, a Taiwanese man, was discharged from hospital after being treated for burns to his hand, Yang said.
2020/12/21 10:44 (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A Filipino man lost his life on Monday (Dec. 21) after he suffered severe burns during a fire at a factory in northern Taiwan on Sunday (Dec. 20). At 12:14 p.m. on Sunday, the fire department received a report that a fire had broken out at the Sci Pharmtech Inc. (旭富製藥) factory in Taoyuan City s Luzhu District, which manufactures hydroxychloroquine API. Such was the intensity of the inferno that it rapidly spread to five nearby factories. When firefighters arrived on the scene, they encountered a five-story factory ablaze, and northeasterly winds were sending embers flying in all directions. Firefighters immediately distributed water lines to extinguish the fire, but due to a large number of water-resistant chemicals stored at the scene and high temperatures caused by the flames, the water hoses were burned and firefighters had to retreat.
Two, including a Filipino, injured in factory fire in Taoyuan
12/20/2020 07:35 PM
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Taoyuan, Dec. 20 (CNA) Two men suffered burns in a factory fire in Taoyuan on Sunday, including a Philippine worker who is being treated for third-degree burns covering 90 percent of his body, according to the city s Fire Department.
The fire, which started at the five-story factory of Sci Pharmtech Inc. in Luzhu District and was reported at 12:14 p.m., spread to five nearby factories before it was contained, the Fire Department said.
The Philippine worker and a Taiwanese, who suffered a burn to his right palm, were both sent to Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in neighboring Linkou District in New Taipei, according to the department.