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On September 3, 1991, an industrial fire caused by a failed improvised repair to a hydraulic line destroyed the Imperial Food Products chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Despite three previous fires in 11 years of operation, the plant had never received a safety inspection. The fire killed 25 people and injured 54, many of whom ...
The plant came under the control of ConAgra Foods in 1998. By June 2009, the 450,000 square feet (42,000 m 2 ) factory was the only one in the world which produced Slim Jims and employed 900 people, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] making it the largest employer in the town of Garner .
A plant for processing ammonium nitrate in Edison, New Jersey, exploded, killing 24 people, injuring 100 and destroying several buildings. July 10, 1926: Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. 600,000 lbs. of explosives detonated as a result of a lightning strike. 187 of the 200 buildings in the arsenal were destroyed and debris was found as far as ...
It also comes less than a year after the government fined another sanitation services provider $1.5 million for employing more than 100 kids — ages 13 to 17 — at 13 meat processing plants in ...
Kanwardeep Singh, owner of Pappa Ray's, says the restaurant used to average around $3,000 per day when the french fry plant was in operation. Now, it's down to $600 per day, he said. Closer to the ...
Workers at the Pitman processing plant, in the central San Joaquin Valley city of Sanger, told The Bee that they choose to endure potential danger and pain because starting at around $18 an hour ...
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The 2021 Georgia poultry plant accident was an industrial disaster that occurred on January 28, 2021, in Gainesville, Georgia, United States. Six people were killed by asphyxiation [ 1 ] and at least ten were injured when a liquid nitrogen leak occurred inside a poultry processing plant owned by Foundation Food Group.