During the internship in Yishui, he accidentally fell from a height and died. The school and the internship unit need to bear the main responsibility.
Li Zhicai is a 2019 student in the Electrical Engineering Department of Yishui County Vocational School, Shandong Province. On June 29, 2020, under the arrangement of the school, he and his classmates went to Hengyuan Precision Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province for an internship. However, on September 30, Li Zhicai accidentally fell from a high altitude and died.
The investigation result given by the local police station was that he was suspected of committing suicide because of "psychological problems." Li Zhicai's parents did not agree with this result. According to Li Zhicai's mother, Zhang Weilian, at noon on September 30, Li Zhicai called his sister and expressed that he wanted to go home. In fact, his family later discovered from his mobile phone that he had searched online for ticket information to go home the next day. However, Li Zhicai's parents still don't know what happened on the day their son fell.
According to people familiar with the matter, Li Zhicai works more than 8 hours a day, switching between day shift and night shift, and often works overtime on weekends. Li Zhicai once told his parents that he was "too tired" and wanted to go home twice. In fact, going to Kunshan for an internship was Li Zhicai’s first trip abroad. Li Zhicai and his classmates were arranged to enter the factory. In the first week, they learned how to operate the machines from the factory master. Zhang Weilian said that his son said that the work was not tiring at that time. He worked 8 hours a day and received a daily salary of 140 yuan. However, after the study period ended, the working hours became longer and longer, and Li Zhicai was not used to it.
On July 15, Li Zhicai sent a WeChat message to his father Li Gang, saying that he had to work night shifts for half a month and was "too tired." More than a dozen classmates had already left. At that time, Li Gang encouraged his son to "try to persevere until the end" and not to worry about others. At the end of August, Li Zhicai asked to go home again, and his mother Zhang Weilian called Huang Bo, the teacher who led the internship. However, Huang Bo said that the school attached great importance to this internship, and students who completed the internship tasks would have a chance to take the exam in the future. Bonus points. Hearing what the teacher said, the couple encouraged their son to persevere. In an interview with reporters, Huang Bo also said that he had "communicated" with the students' parents, but he did not disclose the specific content of the communication. When this incident happened, Li Gang and Zhang Weilian always regretted it. They felt that if they had let their son come back at that time, the fall to death would not have happened.
In fact, both the school and the internship unit are responsible for this matter. Li Zhicai is not yet 18 years old, and he has to do more work than normal rest time every day. However, the school failed to fulfill its effective management obligations, did not conduct any inspection on the nature of the internship unit and work content, and did not make any suggestions, resulting in Li Chicai fell to his death. Obviously, the school had obvious faults and was primarily responsible for Li Zhicai's death. As for the internship units, they also have the responsibility to ensure the safety of students. Now if something goes wrong with the students, of course they have to bear part of the responsibility.