SHENZHEN, May 21 (Xinhua) -- An employee of the Foxconn Technology Group died after falling from a building in south China's Shenzhen early Friday, the eighth such death involving Foxconn workers this year.
Two other Foxconn employees have also fallen from buildings this year, but they survived.
Nan Gang, a 21-year-old man from central Hubei Province, who was off duty at around 4 a.m., climbed to the fourth level of a 4-storey factory building in Foxconn's industrial complex in Longhua Township.
He jumped at 4:37 a.m., said Huang Jianwei, a spokesman of the Bao'an Police Station of the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau.
Nan landed on his head and died instantly, said a deputy head of the hospital's administrative office surnamed Zhou. His body was taken to the hospital by a Foxconn vehicle at 4:50 a.m. and was in the hospital morgue.
The hospital did not send an ambulance because Nan was already dead when it received the report, Zhou said.
A joint team of police and work safety authorities are investigating the death.
Shenzhen-based Foxconn's company profile on its website says it's the world's top electronics manufacturer with more than 600,000 employees and ranked 109 among the Fortune 500 companies in 2009. It is linked to Taiwan electronics giant Hon Hai Group.Â
