Cause of explosion is unknown
By Jason Mick June 8, 2011
An explosion on Tuesday rocked Intel Corp.'s Fab 22, a semiconductor manufacturing facility located near Chandler, Arizona. 
The explosion comes just weeks after a tragic explosion at a Chinese plant owned by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd. (2317) subsidiary Foxconn. The Chinese plant was being used to manufacture Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad 2 at the time, and has since reopened. The incident claimed three lives as fires and secondary explosions raged for some time after the incident. By contrast the damage at the Intel fab was limited by high tech safety systems. Seven workers were in the room when the explosion occurred and six were outside of it. Fire controls kicked in, as designed, limiting the extent of the damage. The employees were evacuated for precautionary purposes, but there was no major damage to the Fab or disruption of production. One worker was taken to the local Maricopa Medical Center with serious, but non-life threatening injuries. Two others were transported to local hospitals immediately after the incident with less serious injuries. And a fourth worker was hospitalized later in the day.
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Explosion at Intel's Chip Fab. I can hear it now all the stories and excuses after an investigation is done and concluded. Was the explosion do to a new CPU design flaw? Did it involve their weak mobile unit? Is Intel pushing the limits of their CPU's too hard? Are the employees at Intel Reckless? These and many more stories like it are possible reasons for the explosion but it will more likely be Human error. It usually almost always is, but we will have to wait to see how Intel spins this news.
Comment by JTECH — June 8, 2011 @ 5:34 pm