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Austin Powder CEO John Rathbun said that operations at the Red Diamond facility would resume as early as Monday.
An evacuation order has been lifted and there are no reports of serious injuries as a result of a gas leak at Vinton County ...
"And that's when I said, Well, why? And he said that Austin powder had a leak, a chemical leak." Vinton County Sheriff Ryan Cain said the evacuation order was lifted at 4:39 Wednesday afternoon.
A nitric acid leak at the Austin Powder Plant in Vinton County has released a toxic orange plume of gas. Here's how light ...