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A reporter from the Shanghai Evening Post recently went undercover in the Taiyuan plant and, if this rough translation from Micgadget is accurate, got to experience what it’s like to produce an iPhone 5:

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An iPhone 5 back-plate run through in front of me almost every 3 seconds. I have to pickup the back-plate and marked 4 position points using the oil-based paint pen and put it back on the running belt swiftly within 3 seconds with no errors. After such repeat action for several hours, I have terrible neckache and muscle pain on my arm… We worked non-stop from midnight to the next morning 6 a.m but were still asked to keep on working as the production line is based on running belt and no one is allowed to stop. I’m so starving and fully exhausted.

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The Fair Labour Association, a watchdog monitoring working conditions at makers of Apple products, has uncovered “tonnes of issues” that need to be addressed at a Foxconn Technology Group plant in Shenzhen, China, FLA chief executive officer Auret van Heerden said.
Van Heerden made the comments in a telephone interview after a multiday inspection of the factory.

Apple, the first technology company to join the FLA, said on February 13 that it asked the Washington-based nonprofit organisation to inspect plants owned by three of its largest manufacturing partners.