CHACHENGSAO, Dec 24 — Fire broke out Sunday night at a Toyota assembly plant oil storage tank in this province, about 100 km east of the capital, causing millions of baht damage.
Explosions about 7pm at Toyota’s Ban Pho district factory at storage tank far from the main facility.
During the blaze, sporadic explosions occured. A dozen fire trucks were sent to the assembly plant.
The fire was brought under control about 10pm. but a warehouse for oil storage tanks, hydraulic fluid and lubricants was destroyed.
There are no reports of casualties, as most workers were off for the weekend.
Police suspected that a worker left the battery of an electric forklift truck charging too long, that it overheated and caused the fire.
Investigators have yet to determine the exact cause of the fire and the company has not yet estimated the damage, but some reports have put the loss at Bt100 million.
The factory was Toyota Motor Asia Pacific Engineering & Manufacturing’s spare parts production centre for the Asia Pacific region.
