E China workshop fire injures 1

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One person has been slightly injured after a factory workshop in east China's Jiangsu Province caught fire on Wednesday afternoon, local authorities said.

The fire broke out at 3:30 p.m. in a workshop of SK Hynix Semiconductor Company (China) in Wuxi City. Witnesses told of dense smoke coming from the building.

The nature of the injury sustained by the person are not currently known, although another dozen people are receiving respiratory checks in hospital, according to a statement from the Wuxi municipal government's information office.

The fire has been put out as of 6 p.m., it said, adding that local environmental authorities have begun tests on the condition of the environment and air quality after the fire.

Founded in 1983, SK Hynix Semiconductor Inc., parent company of Wuxi company, is a memory semiconductor supplier of the Republic of Korea. It is the world's second-largest memory chip maker and the world's sixth-largest semiconductor company.

Further investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.

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