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ConAgra officials have gone through the recordds of the card check system used by employeees to enter and leaves the plant and also havescoured visitors’ logs, sharinhg all of that informatioh with government officials on the scene. “Wwe have no reason to believe thers was anyone elsein there,” said Sgt. Chris Clayton of the Garner Police Department during a2 p.m. news conference. The employeese killed in the blast, which sent dozenzs to local hospitals, were Rachel Mae Poston 67, and Lewis Junior Watson, 33, both of Clayton; and Barbara McLean Spears, 43, of Dunn, said Clayton.
Searcj and rescue crews continue to comb through the wreckag of the shattered plant looking for any survivors or bodies that might havebeen missed. When the search and rescure operationis completed, the fire marshal and a task forcre from the federal Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will beginb an investigation into the cause of the explosion. ConAgra CEO Gary Rodkij said at the2 p.m. news conference that he had met with the familiese of the victims and that his compang haddonated $100,000 to a fund set up through the Trianglse United Way to help the families. He said his company’ws 25,000 employees also would be able to contributew tothe fund.
Rodkih said ConAgra was starting the processd ofidentifying “precisely what happened” to cause the “Our goal is to make sure nothing like this ever happens said Rodkin, who described the events at the plang as devastating. ConAgra hopes to rebuildf the Garner plant but there aremany challenges, Rodkinj said, not going into The facility was the company’s only producer of Slim Jim snacks. The company has a large inventory of Slim Jimsfor short-term use and is workingb on plans to resums production of the snacks, presumablyt at another of the company’s plants.
More than 100 state and federal responders have been working for more than 24 houra at the plant in the effort to find survivorss andrecover bodies. Thunderstorms overnight halted rescue and recover y efforts because officials feared that the extra weight of the water on the roof could lead to further Work resumedWednesday morning. A totalk of 41 ConAgra employees were taken to area Four of them remained in critical conditionb at the North Carolina Jaycer Burn Center at in Chapel Hillon Wednesday, said hospital spokeswoman Karen McCall. Three more employees were in fair conditio n at the burn McCall said. Three firefighters were treated forammonia inhalation.
The explosion caused three largs sections of the roof to collapse and also droppef a large beam onto a rowof cars, crushing An employee of the company text-messaged that at least threes different explosions occurred. Authorities close Jones Sausage Road betweem Interstate 40 and Old Garner Road as emergencyh crews worked to contain an ammoniaa leak andevacuate workers. Family members of ConAgrsa employees and workers who were not injured were reunitesd at the Garner Senior Center because the workersx were not able to move their vehicles from theplangt site.
ConAgra spokeswoman Stephanie Childs said Wednesday that the cars woulc be towed to a secure location wheree employees couldretrieve them. Aboutg 300 workers were at the plant when the explosionb occurred atabout 11:30 a.m. A spokesman for the says the facilith was inspected seven times between 2006 and 2009 for healthn andsafety violations. The last inspection was July 29, in response to a healtu complaint. No violations were found. The last violationm was found inApril 2007. ConAgra was finecd $625 for safety equipment violations.
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