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A deadly tornado outbreak caused at least 90 deaths across the country’s heartland on Dec. 10 – 11, 2021. An EF-4 tore through the heart of Mayfield, Kentucky, damaging facilities owned by ...
Eight of the Kentucky tornado deaths were workers inside the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory that collapsed.
Mayfield Consumer Products (est. in 1998) is an American family-owned company, based in Mayfield, Kentucky. It manufactures branded candles and home fragrance products. On December 10, 2021, a Mayfield candle-making factory was leveled by a tornado, resulting in eight deaths and multiple injuries. The company faced multiple lawsuits, due to ...
Search and rescue teams combing through the wreckage of the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory in Mayfield on December 13. The National Weather Service issued a tornado emergency for Mayfield at 9:26 p.m. CST (03:26 UTC) as the now massive wedge tornado approached the town from the southwest. [34]
The Mayfield Consumer Products factory was the third-biggest employer in this corner of western Kentucky, an important economic engine that churned out candles that lined the shelves of malls ...
The deaths of the workers at the candle factory prompted the launch of an investigation into the facility's protocols by state authorities. [77] Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear stated that over 50 people had died in the city during a live phone interview with Louisville CBS affiliate WLKY on December 11. [ 78 ]
Mayfield candle factory destroyed by a killer Kentucky tornado, where workers said they were threatened with dismissal if they left their posts, closing
Andrea Miranda, a factory worker from Puerto Rico, survived the destruction of the Mayfield candle factory in Kentucky but lost everything.