Impact Plastics is now explaining its side of the story. In a response to the lawsuit filed this month, Impact Plastics said management never told anyone they could not leave.

ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — A plastics manufacturer in Unicoi County expressed sympathy after several employees went missing or died amid catastrophic flooding. Impact Plastics issued a press release ...

Impact Plastics and its CEO, Gerald O'Connor, have been sued by the family of one of its Tennessee employees who was killed by catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene.

The families of the 11 Tennessee plastics plant workers swept away by Hurricane Helene’s deadly floodwaters are demanding answers from the company after its officials claimed no flood warnings ...

At least two workers at Impact Plastics said they were told to keep working last Friday, just over a mile from a hospital where more than 50 people had to be rescued from the roof due to high ...

Impact Plastics also claims that Peterson is "at least 50% at fault for any of the alleged injuries and damages." Six Impact ...

On April 2, TOSHA released its full investigation summary. It said it found Impact Plastics was not responsible for the deaths that day because "company management exercised reasonable diligence ...

Impact Plastics sits about 500 feet from the river, a winding tributary that flows through the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina and into Tennessee. Founded in 1987, ...

Families of the Impact Plastics employees were joined by Erwin Mayor Glenn White, Ben Booher, the executive director of the Unicoi County Care and Share Ministry, and the St. Michael the Archangel ...

All of the bodies were employees of Impact Plastics. Rosa Andrade is the final employee missing in the county. She is 29 years old and is from Mexico, with two children.

EWRIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — Impact Plastics employee Zinna Adkins stepped outside her workplace at 10:54 a.m. on Friday and captured water rising in the parking lot on her cell phone. But at that time ...

At least two workers at Impact Plastics said they were told to keep working last Friday, just over a mile from a hospital where more than 50 people had to be rescued from the roof due to high ...