[A fire at a Tyson Foods plant in Camilla, Georgia, killed one person and severely burned others early Friday. Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire, which a Tyson Foods spokesperson confirmed resulted in the death of one person and several injuries. A union spokesperson described the incident as a boiler explosion, and others were severely burned.
The victim was identified as a 61-year-old woman from Las Vegas, who was accompanying her husband to the plant. She was asleep in the sleeper of the truck when the explosion happened and was killed when a concrete wall came down on the tractor-trailer. Her husband was in the building at the time of the blast and was not injured.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents over 15,000 poultry workers across the southern US, including 1,600 workers at the Tyson facility in Camilla, is working with the company and local emergency authorities to ensure that all the workers impacted are taken care of.
Union representatives are on the scene to help anyone injured in the explosion, and are calling for a thorough investigation into the incident. “No worker should ever have to worry that when they go to work, they may not be able to return home safe and sound,” said Stuart Appelbaum and Edgar Fields of the union.
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