Taipei, Sept. 26 (CNA) Four workers of Cheng Hsin Rubber Industry Co., Taiwan’s largest tire maker, suffered minor injuries in a fire at the company’s factory in Changhua County on Saturday, the company said in a statement.
A fire broke out at 11:52 a.m. in the rubber processing department of Cheng Hsin’s factory in Changhua’s Xizhou Township, and four workers injured were sent to hospitals to be treated for smoke inhalation, the company said.
According to the local fire department, the fire took place in a 200-square-meter area on the third and fourth floors in one of the buildings in the factory, where large numbers of rubber items were stored.
The rubber items contributed to the heavy smoke at the scene after the fire broke out.
Workers had already pulled in a water hose to try to put out the fire when the firemen arrived, fire department official Tsai Ching-tien (蔡清添) said, and the fire was put out in an hour.
There was no immediate explanation for what triggered the fire, and Tsai said further investigation was needed to determine where the fire started and what caused it.
Meanwhile, the company, which has 11 factories in Taiwan, China, India and Indonesia, said the fire is expected to only have a minor impact on its operations.
(By Wu Che-hao, Tsai Peng-min and Kay Liu) enditem/ls
