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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday February 09 2017, @10:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the palpable-irony dept.

HONG KONG/SEOUL Feb 8 A minor fire that broke out at a Samsung SDI Co Ltd factory in China on Wednesday was caused by waste products including faulty batteries, the Korean company and local emergency services said.

The fire broke out at the Samsung Electronics Co Ltd affiliate's factory in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin earlier on Wednesday and has been extinguished, a Samsung spokesman said, adding that there were no casualties or significant impact to the plant's operations.

The fire broke out not on the production line itself but in a part of the facility used for waste, including faulty batteries, said Samsung SDI spokesman Shin Yong-doo. He added that most of the factory was running as normal.

The local fire department, however, said on its microblog that the fire was caused by batteries inside the facility.

The "material that caught fire was lithium batteries inside the production workshops and some half-finished products", the Wuqing branch of the Tianjin Fire Department said in a post on its verified Sina Weibo account. It added it had sent out 110 firefighters and 19 trucks to put out the fire.

http://www.reuters.com/article/samsung-sdi-batteries-fire-idUSL4N1FT3BX

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday February 09 2017, @09:01PM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday February 09 2017, @09:01PM (#465251) Journal

    I am usually anti-anti conspiracists, but you have a point.

    - Fire reported, chief.
    - Prepare a truck. Entity?
    - The fuck I know sir, we Chinese can't be trusted, but from the reports it should be minor. Here is the addy.
    - Let me look up... it's the factory that makes the batteries for the note 7!
    - whoa!
    - (hits a big red button) 20 MORE TRUCKS NAO!
    [sirens wailing]

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