TOKYO, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — Toyota Motor Corp. mentioned Tuesday it has halted 10 manufacturing strains at six factories in central Japan following an explosion at one in every of its element suppliers.
The accident occurred Monday at Chuo Spring Co.’s manufacturing unit in Aichi prefecture, the place automobile suspension coils are made for quite a few Japanese carmakers. One worker was hospitalized, and one other was handled for slight accidents, the provider mentioned Tuesday.
Toyota mentioned it could maintain the affected manufacturing strains shut all through Tuesday, and it could resolve in a while the day whether or not it may resume operations on Wednesday, it mentioned.
The Japanese automaker has 14 home meeting vegetation which produce automobiles for each home and abroad markets.