Erwin, Tennessee and Impact Plastics
2 dead, 5 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.
11 workers at a Tennessee factory were swept away in Hurricane Helene flooding. Only 5 were rescued
Workers inside a plastics factory in Tennessee say they narrowly escaped after flooding from Hurricane Helene. The raging rainwaters swept 11 people away Friday.
Impact Plastics in Erwin says some employees are dead or missing after flood
The company stated that when water began to cover the parking lot and the adjacent service road and the plant lost power, employees were dismissed to go home.
Six factory workers dead or missing in Eastern Tennessee after being kept on the job during Helene’s deluge
Impact Plastics made employees come in to work on Friday morning despite the imminent threat of flooding from Helene and kept them there as the nearby Nolichuky River overflowed its banks and inundated the plant.
East Tennessee K-9 officer found dead after going missing following flood
ERWIN, Tenn. (WVLT) - An East Tennessee police department said one of its K-9 officers was found dead after going missing following historic flooding. The Erwin Police Department said K-9 Scotty went missing from the Bumpass Cove area, which is about four miles west of Erwin, during Friday’s flood.
Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant employees. Some are among the missing, dead.
Families began learning the grim news Monday that their loved ones were among the workers who did not survive when floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped them at a eastern Tennessee plastics factory.
Tennessee plastics factory employee recounts narrow escape through floodwater
Impact Plastics employee Zinna Adkins stepped outside her workplace at 10:54 a.m. on Friday and captured water rising in the parking lot on her cellphone. But at that time, she said no supervisor informed employees they were free to leave.
Employees still missing from East Tennessee plastics factory after Helene
Impact Plastics in Unicoi County come from a tight knit Mexican community. The families say they were told four bodies have been recovered and they’re waiting to hear who they are.
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