Then, the second issue was even more serious.
It's common knowledge that dust can explode in any factory.
But those Beifu workers didn't know that.
The batteries that Beifu bought from the outside needed to be cut at Beifu's factory.
Of course, the cutting process doesn't require any effort from Beifu's workers; it's fully automated.
But after cutting, some metal dust is produced, and this dust is placed in dust collectors.
The dust in the collectors needs to be handled with specialized equipment.
However, Beifu's workers responded by using regular vacuum cleaners to suck up this dust.
The result, naturally, was a dust explosion, and one worker died.
Beifu's response was to send out a maintenance team of hundreds to frantically demand documentation from partners, hoping to prove through loopholes in the paperwork that they weren't to blame.
