What was the cause of the conagra plant explosion?
Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) June 10, 2009 — Victims of the ConAgra plant explosion and their families should be wary of solicitations from out-of-state lawyers pursuing personal injury claims, cautions a Raleigh workers’ compensation specialist. An explosion rocked the Garner food processing plant Tuesday, causing part of the roof to collapse and sending more than 40 people to area hospitals, several with critical burns. At least three people were still unaccounted for Tuesday afternoon. Authorities were still investigating the cause of the explosion at the Garner plant that manufactured snack food products such as Slim Jims. “This is not the first tragedy like this we’ve had in North Carolina,” said Raleigh, NC attorney Benjamin T. Cochran, a board-certified workers’ compensation specialist and supervising partner with the law firm of Hardison & Associates. “We saw an influx of lawyers from out of state after the Hamlet chicken plant fire, and we do not want to see a repeat of that.” The 199
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) – Three workers died when an explosion caused a roof collapse at a ConAgra Foods Inc processing plant in North Carolina, and more than 40 people were injured, the company and police said on Wednesday. The 500,000-square-foot (46,000-sq-meter) plant in Garner, south of the state capital of Raleigh, employed 900 people in three shifts and made Slim Jim meat sticks, ConAgra said. Tuesday’s explosion started a fire and blew out a wall that fell onto a row of parked cars, crushing them. People at the scene reported a strong smell of ammonia fumes. The cause of the blast was unknown. Omaha, Nebraska-based ConAgra said in a statement on Wednesday that three employees were found dead inside the plant. Police said a 43-year-old woman was among the dead. Work crews brought in cranes and other heavy equipment to move pieces of debris to aid in the search, Garner Police Sergeant Chris Clayton said. State workplace safety officials inspected the plant last July,
