Tennessee plastic manufacturer addresses ‘missing and deceased employees’ after floods
Impact Plastics issued a press release on Monday stating that the company "expresses sympathy for the missing and deceased employees and one contractor during the historic and devastating floods at its facility on Friday,
Authorities investigating Impact Plastics in Tennessee after workers died in flooding
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into claims denied by Impact Plastics that managers did not let workers go. Several were swept away.
How two factories near Impact Plastics in Erwin made sure their employees survived deadly flood
I dug a road into the railroad bank. … I made everybody hit their gas and don’t stop,” said Ron Kell, manager of the Old Hickory Buildings factory.
Impact Plastics employees among dead or missing from flash floods
Company officials said workers were dismissed after water covered the parking lot, service road and the plant lost power.
2 dead, several missing from Impact Plastics facility after Helene floods Erwin, Tennessee
A devastating flood struck an East Tennessee plastics manufacturing plant during Hurricane Helene, resulting in multiple employees being missing or deceased.
Tennessee investigating plastics factory after several workers trapped by Helene floodwaters died
TBI investigating Impact Plastics in Erwin after multiple employees died in flooding
At least two women who worked at the plant died and at least three are missing. Employees allege they weren't allowed to leave as floodwaters rose.
Internal review from plastics plant where three died finds ‘there was time to escape’ flood
An East Tennessee plastics plant where workers say they were forced to stay as Hurricane Helene flooded the area released its own preliminary internal review Thursday, finding the allegations to be “false.
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