In January 2012, about 150 Foxconn employees threatened to commit a mass suicide in protest of their working conditions.[127] One worker said the protest resulted from 600 workers being moved into a new "unbearable" factory location.[2] In September 2012, a fight at worker dormitories in Taiyuan, Shanxi, where a guard allegedly was beating a worker, escalated into a riot involving 2,000 people and was quelled by security.[129]