'It was too late': Flood survivor recalls Hurricane Helene inundation that swept 11 coworkers away

The Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA) says they are investigating a factory in rural Tennessee after floodwaters from Helene swept 11 of their workers away.
TOSHA says the current investigation by the TBI into the circumstances that led to these deaths supersedes the jurisdiction of TOSHA.
Investigators from TOSHA will work with TBI and local officials to determine when they can begin an on-site inspection.
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[@jyellowhammer]

Nobody, no job, no boss, will ever decide my fate. Job be damned. You aren’t in prison. Make educated decisions about your own safety and act accordingly.

[@JerdMcLean]

Lol you don't have a job

[@creceda]

You must live only for yourself with no concept of walking in someone else’s shoes.

[@jyellowhammer]

@@creceda Not at all, I just have the capacity for abstract thought.

[@stevenchadderdon9061]

​@@creceda😂😂 i bet you cry when cows die

[@LegacyByT]

These companies that tell their employees they cannot leave during a deadly storm should be sued, and the government should pursue criminal charges as well

[@stevenchadderdon9061]

wrong. the employees who decide to risk there lives made that choice. no one made them stay.

[@SandraLeeGarner]

I'm tellin ya!

[@ChosenCarter-ln7xs]

God please protect this man that's speaking out about Impact Plastics 💛

[@casandrala8370]

❤🙏

[@sarahtrammell9546]

❤ 🙏🏻

[@happypeeps4244]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I work for a major auto manufacturer in Ohio, and they have made very bad decisions in regards to our safety when it comes to tornadoes! I feel for you and I am so sorry for your loss and that you had to go through this because of corporate greed !😢

[@savvychipmunk2228]

Amen

[@frogsmoker714]

Impact Plastics is guilty of murder. Should be sentenced to life imprisonment. My Canadian opinion.

[@happypeeps4244]

My ex father-in-law went to Canada to open up KTH parts and industries who furnishes Honda of America. I remember him saying the labor and work laws were a lot different for Canadians versus Americans a.k.a. better.! There were several tornadoes around our plant in Ohio, and it took almost 25 minutes for the managers to finally sound the alarms when security watched the storm and was notified by the Ohio State Highway Patrol! And then had the audacity to tell people they could not leave after their families homes were decimated and tornadoes! is that what we really call a Japanese work ethic?!?!!🥴

[@n155m0]

I agree in my opinion as well

[@janetlohmann3338]

SHAME on that company!!!!!

[@debbiedean3165]

This is criminal, Impact Plastics should be sued. This is gross negligence that resulted in death. They were threatened if they left.

[@jackiewren87]

Sued for what exactly?? Jeez sue happy American thinking on display! You can’t run a successful business by sending your employees home every time there is heavy rain, a storm, remnants of a hurricane and the list goes on. If you think the company is guilty of gross negligence for a flood they had no idea was going to happen, then you also should find the employees guilty of gross stupidity for showing up to work in a flood they had no idea was going to happen!! See how that makes know sense! This is what we consider a act of God!! No person or company is to blame! It’s easy to point the finger when you know the outcome…. Hindsight is always 20/20!

[@brucebird133]

He sounds like a bloke I'd love to work with... Genuinely caring about not himself, but his fellow workers.. I hope he gets the support he deserves. RIP to those lost.

[@DE-ke2rf]

Some factory manager tells me I can’t leave-I tell them go pound sand…

[@FirstLast-dy4gt]

Correct

[@lindadiaz3268]

I can't imagine the horror these people encountered, truly my heart and prayers are endless,

[@patriciacave4450]

Companies do this they can say they don’t, but those of us who work we know they do

[@Grungefan2018]

CEO - Gerald O’Connor of Impact Plastics. YOU are responsible for forcing your employees to come in and stay at your disgusting company

[@rayray4192]

No one should have gone to work. They didn’t have a reliable weather forecast?

[@jovenserdenola1679]

No words but to cry😢 prayers 🙏🙏🙏 and God bless North Carolina ❤️❤️❤️💯🇵🇭 from Philippines 🙏.

[@allisgran9466]

So sorry for your losses. This should not have happened.

[@josephsage3524]

Mother nature does what she wants, and when push comes to shove, politicians don't care...none of them, not trump, not harris...zero of them

[@cherissenichole702]

How is the owner claiming he was the last person out?? This is a tragedy!

[@dangabor8585]

This all rests on CEO Gerald O'Connor's chest. May he pay dearly for his inane comment. "The people had time to leave." What a useless idiot. But he will never pay for this. He'll probably be lauded by his peers. We live in a Godless world.

[@JustMeeee2]

He will answer for it if he knew he was in the wrong!

[@rayray4192]

Humans are a defective species. You are living on the lunatic asylum planet of the universe.

[@rosiemackenzie5976]

If you are in an emergency do what you feel makes the most sense, and do it quick, don't rely on somebody's say so.

[@marciecorda5209]

Always use your own judgement in CRITICAL SITUATIONS. I already witnessed ignorance of many people " in charge". Don't jeopardise your safety and life.

[@paulaweadon8130]

Prayers for the missing and prayers for the survivors.

[@PHILOCORAPTOR777]

Don't ask permission. Just leave if you need to.

[@divyanaik8064]

Most of the Companies haveonly concern on profit , business, doesn't care about employees health and security 😢😢,sad truth

[@nicki531]

11 is alot

[@fistteam]

I’d be willing to bet most of those who stayed & unfortunately lost their lives that tragic day, were waiting on their rides & had no where else they could go… 😢🙏

[@casandrala8370]

The company will always blame the victims.

[@robertmoore1215]

Or claim insubordination. This is what subordination look like, folks. No company has the right to keep you in harm's way.

[@gregdragoo4777]

And the poor people will always blame the rich people

[@casandrala8370]

@@gregdragoo4777 we are under a monarchy, the poor in the United States cannot blame the rich. They can only blame themselves if they don't get off their ass and do what they can do.

[@robertmoore1215]

@@gregdragoo4777 If the amount of money in your pocket determines that everyone else's best interest is of lesser priority, that is the corruption that poor and middle class rightfully resent. Our nation was founded on equal justice, not crooked justice favoring the highest bidder.

[@MightMouse2174]

Yeah when I hear a storm is coming i let it be known I'm not coming in

[@socialbutterfly114]

Facts!

[@JustMeeee2]

Me too!

[@GiuliaBL]

Boycott Impact Plastic

[@simonfilimon3813]

This story is making its way to a lot of Spanish speaking mainstream channels and platforms in the states and abroad.

[@SandraWillson-i2z]

Prayers for all the families

[@diccraxy4051]

They are lying but this man is telling the truth. In all that weather why would you have people working. Sue them for what they don't have because lives could have been saved.

[@annsaunders5768]

Praying for all concerned 🙏

[@chasidy9395]

The CEO’s response video is horrendous. God please bring peace to the families who lost their loved ones and give them the strength they need to fight the evil brought down on them by these corporations

[@Joanthebrightone]

I am SO sorry!!!!

[@NMS7074RF]

They made them come to work to build up more millions, not thinking about risking their workers live's ..

[@V.E.R.O.]

That's crazy. This greedy company worked those people to death!

[@rachaelpate6778]

From what I understand these poor folks were undocumented & were afraid of losing their jobs! WTH is wrong with the owners of this company? Bet they were safe & dry while this was happening to their employees! Makes me sick the way some people treat others 😡

[@dochics1053]

Corporate greed..

[@happypeeps4244]

They made those people work because they do not care about them! I work for a major manufacturer in Ohio and they do not care about assembly line workers, the little people! I hope this company gets sued and many others as well!

[@stevenchadderdon9061]

😂 imagine being a grown adult watching the news with a 3-day warning before the hurricane got to you and still deciding to go to work

[@HardcoreFourSix]

Your boss can fire you if you disobey, but if you do not feel safe, you leave and find a new job if necessary. You cannot blame the boss or the company for people making bad choices.

[@ayscawbuay5889]

TOTAL GREED...

[@Music_Blueprint_78]

Impact Plastics should have owners and managers in prison.

[@valkyrie1066]

The few dollars they saved at the cost of human lives. One shift? Seriously? It was time for a group walk out!!!!!!!

[@juliezapata184]

This is heartbreaking May they all RIP in paradise 🙏🕊️. 😞😭💔 I would of left ! They need to be sued

[@hansfranklin5070]

Who do you believe? The guy's story or the company statement? 😢

[@AnnetteBestwick]

They made their own choice to stay at work when others had been told to evacuate. I am sorry for the loss of life here. But it needs to be said that they chose work over their lives. Places can be replaced people cannot.

[@PrincessMorganxox]

They were told to not leave and apparently 10 minutes after that, they said they could leave and it was too late.

[@nammacubby]

This isn't right ❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@dorothylambert5223]

Heartbreaking. Guess no.had no idea

[@joejones9520]

i hate work and companies

[@novascotiaskater1868]

So people left in 4 wheel drives and left people behind ??

[@thefrener794]

American workers can scream at the government but their boss can put their lives at risk with nothing but a whimper.

[@rainbow72878]

They did that to the 9-11 people in the towers. Im very sorry. Thats just so wrong. We need to stand up for ourselves now. These people need to be sued.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

They should not have even been there in the first place! They should have evacuated or went to shelters. They were not in prison, and could have not even went in to work, or could have left at anytime!

[@pamelabrumfield7679]

Shame in this place for not letting their workers go!!!! That shows just what they all meant to you!!!! As i recall the very same thing happened in Mayfield Kentucky a few years back and lives were lost!!! Where is your humanity for these good folks who work tireless for you everyday? I worked and had to retire from a factory just like these...youre only a number to them!! I'm a firm believer in God and everyone of you will have to stand before his mighty name one day for murder!!! On the flip side of things....I'm praying for all of you dear people that survived! ❤❤🙏🙏

[@xyz12345457]

Who organized the protest with the professional photos of the missing women?

[@coreenaburke5378]

That can easily be done with any printer.

[@xyz12345457]

@@coreenaburke5378 Even if that were true, which it is not, someone would have to organize the protest.

[@gimcrack555]

I always monitor this stuff at all times. Even at work, I either won't show up at all. If I'm at work. Believe me I'm not asking if I can leave. I'm telling them I'm leaving and go to safety. My life is more important than any job out there. Fired me I don't care.

[@mycocoaone]

Always pay attention to your gut. Don't wait for some corp to tell you what to do in an emergency. It will always be greed not you.

[@triciahensley5437]

Why didnt yhey just leave. Someone had to see water up

[@RK-ur3hy]

❤

[@kathycournoyer5868]

This company has another site in Putnam Connecticut, they need to pay in some form and if anyone is giving them business -they should stop.

[@gwendolynmcgrath7697]

What is the Price of Greed ?

[@oldbuzzard8536]

Here comes the cover up!!

[@daliamartinezclervil3889]

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽💔💔💔💔💔💔😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@lyndhapol]

🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏

[@TRUTHJESUS87]

Stop making plastic

[@brittanycampbell5178]

3 of the 5 did not speak English. If they would of got the messege these ladies would of went home to their families.

[@nammacubby]

Get right with God serve and true eorship its the din of others in America this is happening.

[@LegacyByT]

The same thing happened on 911 and a lot of people could have gotten out. Had bosses not told them to keep working. I think it’s worth losing your job and defying management if it saves your life if they fire you later than sue them.

[@DStuart-s1q]

PLEASE, please stop building businesses and homes next to rivers and oceans. This is so terrble.

[@pambuss4205]

SO HEART BREAKING! PRAYERS FOR YOU ALL! SHAME ON THE GOVERNMENT!!!HELP SHOUKD OF BEEN THERE WITHIN 2 DAYS PERIOD!!!! SELFISH AHOLES!!! AND PEOPLE KNOW YOU WANT THAT LAND FOR THE MINERALS .GOD SEES ALL! PURE EVIL! ❤TO ALL THE PEOPLE OUT THERE

[@Hawkeyes75]

You feel the need to leave, you do it. Remember those in the twin towers who stayed or went back for things. They died also. I hope you all sue, employee safety should have been #1.

[@mattd8411]

I want to know why jc fire didn't send more. They could have sent more help in 6 minutes or less. Absolutely pitiful.

[@curtiscomes9754]

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[@Matt999PL]

Nobody warn them in advance. Now, the factory doesn't want to take responsibility. Saying you have to work while flooding is coming is cruel. God saves the their souls

[@TRUTHJESUS87]

God don’t want plastic Swinging Gay Don’t want you apart from your family Think

[@triciahensley5437]

To me it sounds like were told to leave

[@poeweezy9910]

Ya'll listen to the one woman who said no Ya'll couldn't leave that 10mints could've saved lots of lives that day.

[@jackiewren87]

Umm. I’m going to be the bad guy here 🙋‍♀️ They told you to work but you choose to work. They said they were monitoring the situation and you were as well. It’s called historic flooding for a reason… nobody could’ve known that devastation was lurking around the corner. You and your colleagues didn’t know it was going to happen either or you would have never went. Don’t place blame where it doesn’t belong! If they’re to blame them you and your colleagues need to take some accountability for your own actions as well and that’s not fair to yall because YOU ALL DID NOT KNOW!! Hindsight is 20/20. Prayers for peace and healing for all involved and affected! 😢❤

[@OkayestOfDads]

If your working or there are language barriers you may not know. So not it's the job 100% of leadership to manage risk mitigation and know of pending emergencies. They should have contacted all employees to not come in...and chose lives over a few hours of revenue.

[@AccipiterAtricapillus]

Work hard, kids. Go to college so you don’t end up like these guys.

[@jyellowhammer]

You don’t have to go to college. You can go get a skill in the trades and make more money. Just have to have the training.

[@paulaweadon8130]

A college degree doesn't mean you're not going to be swept away by a biblical storm.

[@joejones9520]

work's work regardless of anything; you end up a trapped slave

[@elliottadams6773]

My question is why did you stay? Why because he doesn't want to his job. And they only care about money.

[@JerdMcLean]

Pft yalls racisll b fyne mo importent things is happenins like Kamalaaaaaaa guuurl pft stop complaining and donate to ur campaign

[@anniethurston157]

______________________________________ "ALLAH. GOD!" THE. " SUPREME" CREATOR. OF. THE. UNIVERSE, ETC., BE. PRAISED! 🙏 "ALLAH. GOD, IS. ANGRY. WITH. THE. WICKED. EVERY. DAY!" "TOUCH. NOT, ALLAH. GOD'S. ANNOINTED, THE. 24000, CHOSEN!" ______________________________________

[@JustMeeee2]

No one forced them to go to work that day they made the choice to go

[@AhmedMonir-kx8rs]

Thanksgiving was not a turkey, but 7 huge cooked whales and 7 huge loaves. [5:109] In the day when Allah gathereth together the messengers, and saith: What was your response (from mankind) ? they say: We have no knowledge. Lo! Thou, only Thou art the Knower of Things Hidden,[5:110] When Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than mere magic; [5:111] And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe. Bear witness that we have surrendered (unto Thee) "we are muslims". [5:112] When the disciples said: O Jesus, son of Mary! Is thy Lord able to send down for us a table spread with food from heaven ? He said: Observe your duty to Allah, if ye are true believers. [5:113] (They said:) We wish to eat thereof, that we may satisfy our hearts and know that thou hast spoken truth to us, and that thereof we may be witnesses. [5:114] Jesus, son of Mary, said: O Allah, Lord of us! Send down for us a table spread with food from heaven, that it may be a feast for us, for the first of us and for the last of us, and a sign from Thee. Give us sustenance, for Thou art the Best of Sustainers. [5:115] Allah said: Lo! I send it down for you. And whoso disbelieveth of you afterward, him surely will I punish with a punishment wherewith I have not punished any of (My) creatures. [5:116] And when Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Didst thou say unto mankind: Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah ? he saith: Be glorified! It was not mine to utter that to which I had no right. If I used to say it, then Thou knewest it. Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I know not what is in Thy Mind. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower of Things Hidden ? [5:117] I spake unto them only that which Thou commandedst me, (saying): Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. I was a witness of them while I dwelt among them, and when Thou tookest me Thou wast the Watcher over them. Thou art Witness over all things. [5:118] If Thou punish them, lo! they are Thy slaves, and if Thou forgive them (lo! they are Thy slaves). Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Mighty, the Wise. [5:119] Allah saith: This is a day in which their truthfulness profiteth the truthful, for theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow, wherein they are secure for ever, Allah taking pleasure in them and they in Him. That is the great triumph. [5:120] Unto Allah belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever is therein, and He is Able to do all things. -"

[@margaretlemmon1143]

Not even close to the clarity of the bible.

[@frogsmoker714]

These Islamic fairy tales have nothing to do with this video and those who lost their lives due to human stupidity and hatred. Please stop spreading Islamic crap in the great Christian country of the USA. In the Name of Jesus the Son of God.

[@lendalee1966]

It's the Muslims Bible is it not?

[@AhmedMonir-kx8rs]

@@lendalee1966 I am sorry, they canceled My respones to You, because they want keep you in the darkness