CEO Snuck Out & Survived During Helene as Workers Died: Suit

A Tennessee company and its CEO are being sued by the family of a worker who was killed after the factory stayed open in devastating flooding conditions during Hurricane Helene, according to court papers.

The lawsuit, filed by the family of Impact Plastics employee Johnny Peterson, said that the factory denied requests by workers to leave and insisted they stay “to meet order deadlines” despite flash flood warnings and other businesses shutting their doors.

The suit called the deaths of six workers that occurred due to the Sept. 27 flood in Erwin “entirely preventable.”

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