11 Tennessee factory workers swept away in Helene floodwaters, company responds to evacuation decision
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Workers from a Tennessee factory say they should not have been at work the day Hurricane Helene caused flash flooding in the area, as some did not make it home.
"We were all talking to the supervisors and telling everybody, ‘Look, we don’t need to be here,'" Impact Plastic employee Zinna Adkins told WJHL. "Our phone alerts were saying we need to flee the areas. And they never said anything about it. And supervisors didn’t tell us that we could go."
A statement from management of the company founded in 1987 and the factory located in Erwin sent to Fox News Digital said that Impact Plastics "expressed sympathy for the missing and deceased employees and one contractor."
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