Family of factory worker who died in Helene flooding files wrongful death suit against employer

The east Tennessee company that saw at least five of its factory workers swept away in flooding from Hurricane Helene now faces a lawsuit from the family of one victim asking for at least $25 million.

CNN

Owner of #ImpactPlastics in #TN, where multiple workers #died allegedly because they were told not to leave the plant until #flood waters made it nearly impossible to escape.

Owner's first statement in the video, a self-righteous claim to be a victim of threats; "To our knowledge, no one #perished on company property."

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/impact-plastics-video-preliminary-review/51-f3a835f3-8da4-45b4-bbd0-552c07ef1f55

Climate Change–Induced Disasters Are Killing Workers

Eleven of Impact Plastics’s workers were at the company’s Tennessee factory when Hurricane Helene hit. Two are confirmed dead, four are still missing. Workers say the company did not let them leave until it was too late.

Impact Plastics CEO Gerald O'Connor is a murderer. End of story. He forced his workers to labor as Hurricane Helene hit. And now six workers are dead and five more are missing. What makes this asshole any different from a serial killer? Seriously.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/tennessee-authorities-investigating-impact-plastics-after-flooding-swept-away-11-of-its-factory-workers

#geraldoconnor #impactplastics #anticapitalism #corporategreed #hurricane

Tennessee authorities investigating Impact Plastics after flooding swept away 11 of its factory workers

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.

PBS News

11 workers at a Tennessee factory were swept away in Hurricane Helene flooding. Only 5 were rescued

https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-helene-tennessee-f7c4a460de588df7a4d5bc9efa756ecb

Impact Plastics said in a statement Monday that it “continued to monitor weather conditions” Friday and that managers dismissed employees “when water began to cover the parking lot and the adjacent service road, and the plant lost power.”

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The statements for the murderers at #ImpactPlastics keeps changing to avoid lawsuits.
#Motherfuckers
We all know your type.

Hurricane Helene: Tennessee authorities investigating factory flood

Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company behind a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Helene. A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesperson said Wednesday that the agency is investigating allegations involving Impact Plastics at the direction of the local prosecutor. Employees in the factory in the small community of Erwin asserted that they weren’t allowed to leave in time to avoid the storm’s impact. It wasn’t until water flooded into the parking lot and the power went out that the plant shut down and sent workers home. Several never made it.

AP News

East TN flood victims: Erwin's Impact Plastics Factory Employees clung desperately to a truck before Helene floodwaters swept them away | Knoxville News Sentinel

As the waters rose outside, managers wouldn’t let employees leave, he said. Instead, managers told people to move their cars away from the rising water. Ingram moved his two separate times because the water wouldn’t stop rising.

#Helene #Hurricane #Flooding #Erwin #Tennessee #FloodVictims #ImpactPlastics

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2024/10/01/tennessee-impact-plastics-employees-fought-desperately-to-stay-above-hurricane-helene-floodwaters/75450498007/

Factory employees clung desperately to a truck before Helene floodwaters swept them away

A group of factory workers tried in vain to escape the raging Nolichucky River in Erwin, Tennessee, even as a dramatic rescue unfolded nearby.

Knoxville News Sentinel

6 workers of #ImpactPlastics in Erwin, Tennessee perished when the #factory was flooded by #HurricaneHelene. The company forced people to work despite the #flood warnings, and refused to let them leave when they still had time to escape. The bottom line was more important than the lives of their employees, and now six of them are dead.

Make sure the world knows what IMPACT PLASTICS did.

https://www.alternet.org/factory-workers-die-helene/

'All because of greed': 6 die at factory that told employees to work during Helene or be fired

Several workers are dead after a factory in Tennessee reportedly made them report to work despite the threat of Hurricane Helene and wouldn't let them leave until it was too late.That's according to Robert Jarvis, who talked to Johnson City, Tennessee news outlet WCYB after the storm raged through h...

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