By Haripriya Suresh and Praveen Paramasivam

BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian authorities are set to start a forensic investigation into the reason for a hearth that broke out on Saturday at a Tata Electronics manufacturing facility that makes parts for Apple (NASDAQ:) iPhones, a Tamil Nadu state official stated on Sunday.

The manufacturing facility, for which Sunday was a weekly vacation, is unlikely to obtain state permission to renew manufacturing by Monday, stated two folks with direct information of the matter.

Neither Tata Electronics nor Apple responded to requests for remark outdoors of normal enterprise hours. Tata Electronics beforehand stated it was investigating the trigger and would take steps to safeguard staff and different stakeholders.

The incident is the most recent lately to have an effect on Apple suppliers in India, the place the U.S. agency is diversifying its provide chain past China and which it sees as a development market.

The hearth on the plant within the metropolis of Hosur started in an space used to retailer chemical compounds, a hearth official instructed Reuters.

It has been “fully put out” and fumes have stopped, stated district administrative official Okay.M. Sarayu.

Two staff who had been hospitalised are more likely to be discharged on Sunday, she stated.

“We are able to now go in to analyze,” Sarayu stated, including {that a} forensic workforce from state capital Chennai has been dispatched.

It was not clear if the hearth affected surrounding buildings, certainly one of which is ready to begin assembling iPhones by year-end.