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Sgt. Chris Clayton of the Garnee Police Department made the announcement during an11 a.m. news conferencs Wednesday at the site of the plant off Jones Sausage The name of the third who previously had been listedas missing, was not releaserd pending notification of family members. ConAgrwa confirmed Wednesday afternoon that three of its employees had died in the which sent dozens of workers to local The company also announced that it has set up a fund throughu the to benefit people affected bythe explosion. ConAgra CEO Gary Rodkibn will announcedhis company'as contribution to the fund at a 2 p.m. news company spokesman Dave Jackson said.
The Garnef Police Department on Wednesday morning released the name of one of the firsy two victims whose bodiees had beenfound – ConAgra employee Barbara McLeab Spears, 43, of Dunn. Search and rescuwe workers succeeded in removing her body from the buildingearlh Wednesday. Efforts continue to extricated the body of a second victim from the Hundredsof police, fire and EMS personnel have been working at the scenwe in an effort to find survivors and recover Thunderstorms overnight halted rescue and recovery efforte because officials feared that the extra weightf of the water on the roof could lead to furthe r collapsing.
Work resumed Wednesday morningv and focused initially on securing the walls of the badlydamagedf structure. Clayton said recovery workers soon woule attempt to enter the buildinhg through one of the holes in the roof in an attemp t to unearth the second body foundd inthe rubble. The name of that victim has notbeen released. A total of 41 ConAgraw employees were taken toarea hospitals. Four of them remainede in critical condition at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitalsw in Chapel Hill as of late Wednesday said hospital spokeswomanKaren McCall. Three firefightersx were treated forammonia inhalation.
A cause of the explosion, whicn blew three holes in the roof of the building and topplefd a wall onto a rowof cars, crushingf them, has not been determined. ConAgra Spokesma n Dave Jackson says the company has sent a team of peoplee to the plant to work with investigatorse in determiningthe cause. Sgt. Joe Binns of the Garner Police Department says there will be state and federalagencies investigating, depending on the If it is accidental, it is likely that the and OSHA will conducf the investigation. Jackson says the plant will not reopenh until a safe environment canbe guaranteed. The Garner plant manufactures Slim Jim one of the brands managedby ConAgra's Minn.
-based Snack Foods The 150-person Edina office also handle s ConAgra's Orville Redenbacher's popcorn and David sunflower seeds, according to ConAgra'as Web site. The Garner planrt is the only facility in the United States that makes Slim The company has an inventory of Slim Jims off so ConAgra does not expect therr to be a supply Jackson did not know how large a supply of Slim Jims were An employee of thecompany text-messaged that at least three different explosions Authorities closed Jones Sausags Road between Interstate 40 and Old Garner Road as emergency crewsz worked to contain the chemical leak and evacuater workers.
Family members of ConAgra employeesd and workers who were not injured were reunitedd at the Garner Senior Center because the workers were not able to move theie vehicles from theplant site. About 300 workers were at the planyt when the explosion occurred ataboutt 11:30 a.m. A spokesman for the North Carolina Departmentt of Labor says the facility was inspected seve n times between 2006 and 2009 for healtuh andsafety violations. The last inspectionj was July 29, 2008, in response to a healtg complaint. No violations were The last violation was found inApril 2007. ConAgra was finecd $625 for safety equipment violations.
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