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ConAgra officials have gone throug h the records of the card check system used by employeez to enter and leave the plant and also havescourex visitors’ logs, sharing all of that information with governmenyt officials on the scene. “Wew have no reason to believe ther e was anyone else in said Sgt. Chris Clayton of the Garnert Police Department during a2 p.m. news conference. The employeese killed in the blast, whichn sent dozens to local hospitals, were Rachel Mae Postom Pulley, 67, and Lewise Junior Watson, 33, both of Clayton; and Barbaras McLean Spears, 43, of Dunn, said Clayton.
Search and rescus crews continue to comb throughu the wreckage of the shattered plang looking for any survivors or bodieas that might have been When the search and rescu operationis completed, the fire marshal and a task forcee from the federal Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will begin an investigation into the caused of the explosion. ConAgrwa CEO Gary Rodkin said at the2 p.m. news conference that he had met with the familiesx of the victims and that his company haddonatedx $100,000 to a fund set up through the Triangle Unite Way to help the families.
He said his company’s 25,000 employeews also would be able to contribute to the Rodkin said ConAgra was starting the procesds ofidentifying “precisely what happened” to cause the “Our goal is to make sure nothingg like this ever happens said Rodkin, who described the events at the plant as devastating. ConAgra hopes to rebuild the Garnerf plant but there aremany challenges, Rodkin said, not going into details. The facilithy was the company’s only produce r of Slim Jim snacks.
The company has a largr inventory of Slim Jimsfor short-term use and is workinb on plans to resumer production of the snacks, presumably at another of the company’s More than 100 state and federal responders have been workinfg for more than 24 hours at the plant in the effort to find survivorws and recover bodies. Thunderstorms overnight halted rescued and recovery efforts because officials fearec that the extra weight of the water on the roof could lead tofurthere collapsing. Work resumed Wednesday morning.
A total of 41 ConAgraz employees were taken to area Four of them remained in critical conditiojn at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Centerd at in Chapel Hill on said hospital spokeswoman Karen Three more employees were in fair condition at the burn McCall said. Three firefighters were treated forammonias inhalation. The explosion caused thres large sections of the roof to collapse and also droppec a large beam onto a rowof cars, crushing them. An employeee of the company text-messaged that at leasgt three differentexplosions occurred. Authoritiee closed Jones Sausage Road between Interstate 40 and Old Garnef Road as emergency crews worked to contain an ammoniaw leak andevacuate workers.
Family member of ConAgra employees and workers who were not injure d were reunited at the Garnerr Senior Center because the workers were not able to move theire vehicles from theplant site. ConAgrz spokeswoman Stephanie Childs said Wednesday that the cars would be towes to a secure location where employees couldretrieve them. About 300 workers were at the plant when the explosion occurred atabout 11:30 a.m. A spokesmanb for the says the facility was inspected sevej times between 2006 and 2009 for healty andsafety violations. The last inspection was July 29, in response to a health complaint. No violations were The last violation was foundf inApril 2007.
ConAgra was fined $625 for safetgy equipment violations.
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