Family of factory worker who died in Helene flooding files …
4 days ago · Impact Plastics said employees were dismissed from work shortly after a power outage at 10:39 a.m. and after public warnings pinged cell phones approximately a minute later.
Impact Plastics and CEO Gerald O'Connor sued by family of ... - CBS News
5 days ago · Impact Plastics and its CEO, Gerald O'Connor, have been sued by the family of one of its Tennessee employees who was killed by catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. The wrongful death ...
Impact Plastics: Tennessee is investigating the factory after its ...
Oct 5, 2024 · Impact Plastics has forcefully denied those claims, saying late Thursday the allegations are false, and no employee was stopped from leaving. Here’s what we know about the tragedy and the state...
'The tragedy there was entirely preventable' | Family of Impact ...
Oct 14, 2024 · ERWIN, Tenn. — The family of a former Impact Plastics employee is suing the company for wrongful death, alleging the company's negligence directly resulted in his death. Zack Lawson, with the ...
Impact Plastics: Tennessee factory says workers had time to flee …
Oct 4, 2024 · Four people who worked at the Impact Plastics plant in Erwin are still missing, and two have been confirmed dead, including Mendoza, the Associated Press reported.
Impact Plastics employees found dead after historic Tennessee …
Oct 7, 2024 · The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation into Impact Plastics after employees alleged managers didn't allow workers to leave the facility Sept. 27, even as warnings were ...
Last Impact Plastics employee still missing two weeks after …
Oct 12, 2024 · KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The mission to find the last missing employee of Impact Plastics continued Friday evening after historic and deadly flooding swept through Unicoi County from Hurricane Helene ...
Tennessee authorities investigating Impact Plastics after flooding ...
Oct 2, 2024 · Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene.
Grief and anger mix as Tennessee plastic plant survivors say ... - NBC News
Oct 2, 2024 · Bertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant.
Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant ... - NBC News
Sep 30, 2024 · Floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped workers at an eastern Tennessee plastics factory, with several family members learning Monday that their loved ones didn't survive.