Workers at Impact Plastics in Erwin, Tennessee, were told they had to stay on the job while management evacuated. They died in the floods.

hypercracker · edit-2 3 months ago

Workers at Impact Plastics in Erwin, Tennessee, were told they had to stay on the job while management evacuated. They died in the floods.

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the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them] · 3 months ago

if you want to see what happened to Erwin, TN, here's drone footage of the aftermath (with annoying music, recommend mute) and a link to the google map for the area

you can see the remains of the Impact Plastics facility at 2:20 in the video

I assumed when I watched it that of course everyone had evacuated from that area

the absolute horror of knowing that many people were trapped there by their fucking employer inspires a deep and visceral thirst for violent retribution

Hexboare [they/them] · 3 months ago

Coming from a place that gets a lot of natural disasters, it's always surprising to see the apparent mismatch between the number of deaths and the actual damage.

Hearing about instances such as these makes the death toll more understandable.

KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] · 3 months ago

the absolute horror of knowing that many people were trapped there by their fucking employer

Congratulations, now you know how the loved ones of the dead peasants felt during the French / Russian Revolutions, the Jacquerie, etc..

HexReplyBot [none/use name] · 3 months ago

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Workers at Impact Plastics in Erwin, Tennessee, were told they had to stay on the job while management evacuated. They died in the floods.

Workers at Impact Plastics in Erwin, Tennessee, were told they had to stay on the job while management evacuated. They died in the floods.

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