An ex-employee has accused Apple of exposing her to gaseous natural chemical compounds from a secret chip fabrication plant positioned close to her dwelling.
Apple fired whistleblower Ashley Gjovik in September 2021, accusing her of leaking its mental property. On the time, Gjovik claimed that this was the results of retaliation by Apple in opposition to individuals who had spoken out within the #AppleToo movement.
Additionally in 2021, she claimed that the Apple constructing the place her workplace was located, was construct on a Superfund website. It is a previously-contaminated space, and Gjovik reported Apple to the Environmental Safety Company (EPA).
Now in a separate case, Gjovik has mentioned on Mastodon that she has a duplicate of an EPA report regarding an investigation right into a tip-off relating to Apple.
“In 2020, I almost died from mysterious industrial chemical publicity at my residence,” she wrote on Mastodon. “Later, in 2023, I found my employer was dumping poisonous waste into the residence home windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door.”
Gjovik’s put up consists of an annotated map exhibiting how shut her former residence was to what she claimed was Apple’s silicon fabrication operation.
“I tipped off the US EPA, who despatched their env cops to raid Apple’s plant in Aug of 2023,” she continued. “The US EPA lastly launched the report of their enforcement inspections & despatched me a duplicate on Friday.”
That report and related documentation is obtainable, bar a number of redactions, by Gjovik’s Dropbox account.
This EPA report consists of descriptions of 19 potential violations of laws by Apple at this website in Santa Clara. It seems that almost all of points discovered at Apple have been relating to the right labeling and courting of things.
Essentially the most critical seems to concern a 1,700 gallon CRA hazardous waste solvent tank which was not being tracked appropriately by the related Useful resource Conservation and Restoration Act procedures.
That potential violation and a collection of additional ones are marked within the report as having been complied with because the inspection. About half of the potential violations are listed as “nonetheless excellent,” nevertheless.
Individually, Gjovik has previously said that regardless of how she was handled by the corporate, she would nonetheless return to Apple if requested.