The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into Impact Plastics in Erwin, Knox News has learned. Employees of the company have alleged management didn’t allow workers to leave the facility even as flood warnings were issued and floodwaters from the Nolichucky River swamped the building.
Two of the women in the group of Impact Plastics employees died, according to an immigrants rights group that has been working with families of some of the employees who worked there. At least three are missing. The company confirmed the death of one person but did not give details about their identity.
I'd bet a lot of doughnuts that the company did tell their workers if they left before their shift was over, that they'd be fired.
Here's a tell: The company was required to report the deaths of workers and they didn't.
Impact Plastics is owned by Gerald O’Connor, who says that he's "devastated", but it seems that he'd have been more devastated by letting his workers leave early.
Well, here's hoping that he suffers a plague of lawyers.
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