Father demands ‘justice’ from Chinese corporation after son dies in chemical plant accident
Guangdong-based Meida Nylon denies negligence after 24-year-old Feng Zhuobin suffered serious injuries in cooling tower ‘explosion’
A father outraged at the death of his son following an accident at a chemical plant created a storm on Chinese social media this week when he accused the company of negligence and delaying his treatment.
The father published articles on the popular social media platforms WeChat and Weibo on Tuesday under the headline“my son is in Heaven”, contending that his 24-year-old son Feng Zhuobin had died of severe chemical burns because of negligence and mistreatment by his employer, Meida Nylon in Xinhui in the southern province of Guangdong.
The company, listed on the Shenzhen stock market since 1997, produces nylons and filaments used in clothing or packaging.
In a statement released on Tuesday in response to the posts by the older Feng, the company strongly denied that it had delayed treating the injured man or was otherwise negligent, and said that Feng Zhuobin was at least partly responsible for the accident by failing to take proper safety measures.
The father’s posts, which included many graphic photographs of the second-degree burns on the young man’s body, have been widely shared online.