2 dead, several 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 ...
Erwin man recalls how he survived after nearly being swept away by flooding at Impact Plastics
The worker said he only had 15 minutes from when he and his coworkers were told to leave the plant before floodwaters began ...
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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 ...
Impact Plastics employee recounts narrow escape through floodwater in Erwin
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 cell phone. But at that ...
Where is Erwin, Tennessee? What happened there when Hurricane Helene's remains reached it?
Erwin, Tennessee is amongst the list of cities crippled by the effects of Hurricane Helene in East Tennessee. Photos and ...
As floods recede after Helene, anguished families wait for answers
After Hurricane Helene sent a rush of floodwater through this small eastern Tennessee town, six employees of a local plastic ...
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Six Impact Plastics employees reported dead following Helene floods
Some workers climbed onto a truck operated by neighboring company PolyPlastics USA, hanging onto plastic pipe as the ...
‘They told me ‘no’’ | Impact Plastics employee says company could have saved lives in Unicoi County
A plastics factory in Unicoi County is under fire after some employees were trapped and killed there during flooding brought ...
Tennessee factory employees clung to semitruck before Helene floodwaters swept them away
The harrowing incident happened at the same time as the Unicoi County Hospital helicopter rescue, just a mile south.
Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant employees, and some are among the missing and dead
Floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped workers at an eastern Tennessee plastics factory, with several family members ...
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Impact Plastics of Erwin expresses sympathy to families of missing or perished employees
The senior management team of Impact Plastics, Inc. (“Impact Plastics”) of Erwin expresses sympathy for the missing and ...