After a Foxconn employee committed suicide after jumping out of his 12th story apartment window over losing an iPhone prototype has had a history of losing device prototypes.

Sun Danyong, the 25 year old who was supposedly interrogated using harsh methods by Foxconn often lost product prototypes but managed to recover them. It was never explained how or why they were lost or even how they were recovered.

Several times he had some products missing, then he got them back,” Lee said. “We don’t know who took the product, but it was at his stop.”

However, it could have been caused by the stressful working environment inside of Foxconn. A worker gives his account of what it’s like inside the Chinese based factory:

A supervisor told us that working at Foxconn requires total obedience; you do not need to be intelligent or highly skilled. After a week of training, we concluded that at Foxconn, we shouldn’t treat ourselves as human beings, we are just machines. During the week, we also had a health examination, a very simple blood test, a blood pressure test and a vision test. We did not receive any results afterwards.

Via: iPhones Talk