Fiat Chrysler Worker at Indiana Plant Tests Positive For Covid-19
March 12 2020 - 2:32PM
Dow Jones News
By Mike Colias
A worker at a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV factory in Indiana
has tested positive for Covid-19, likely the first case of a
coronavirus infection reported inside a U.S automotive factory.
The employee, who works at the company's transmission plant in
Kokomo, Ind., is receiving treatment and co-workers who were in
direct contact with the person are under home quarantine, a Fiat
Chrysler spokeswoman said Thursday. The plant, which employs about
4,000 workers, is continuing normal operations, she said.
The factory, about 65 miles north of Indianapolis, makes
transmissions for several models, including Ram pickup trucks and
Jeep sport-utility vehicles, the company's biggest money
makers.
Auto makers have been scrambling for weeks to prevent parts
shortages from the disruption of Chinese supplier factories from
crimping factory output in North America, the main profit generator
for Fiat Chrysler, General Motors and Ford Motor Co. Now, companies
are readying contingency plans to manage any virus-related trouble
at their North American operations.
Fiat Chrysler said Wednesday it will reduce production at its
Italian factories as part of an effort to contain the spread of the
virus.
Write to Mike Colias at mike.colias@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 12, 2020 14:17 ET (18:17 GMT)
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