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A June 9, 2009, explosion at a ConAgra Foods plant in Garner killed three workers and sent dozens more to area hospitals with burns and other injuries.
The town of Garner has received a check for $2.5 million from the company that once operated the Slim Jim plant that shut in May, nearly two years after a fatal explosion.
A local maker of Slim Jim beef jerky products will shut its doors Friday, putting more than 200 people in the town of Garner out of work.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board plans to close its investigation into the fatal explosion in Garner last year so that it can turn its attention to the oil rig blast in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the nation's largest oil spill.
A town and factory paused on Wednesday to remember four people killed from an explosion at the Slim Jim plant in Garner a year ago.
ConAgra Foods Inc. will pay Raleigh $42,858 for the city's emergency response after the explosion last June at the ConAgra plant in Garner, officials said Wednesday.
About two dozen workers at the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant in Garner have filed suit against the town and several contractors and component suppliers, alleging negligence that led to a fatal explosion at the plant last summer.
ConAgra Foods Inc. officials said Wednesday that they plan to close the Garner plant that was damaged in an explosion last summer and move production of Slim Jim beef jerky products to Ohio.
Federal officials on Thursday adopted the recommendations that safety codes be changed to prevent natural gas build-up inside buildings, such as the one that led to a fatal explosion at the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant in Garner last summer.
The company and state agreed that ConAgra would pay $106,440 and make changes to its policies in light of a June explosion that killed four.
The state Department of Labor cited ConAgra Foods Inc. on Tuesday for 27 workplace safety violations at the Garner plant where three workers were killed in a June explosion.
A spokesman for the Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill said Monday that 55-year-old Curtis Ray Poppe died last Thursday, five months after the blast at the ConAgra plant in Garner.
The company is cutting the work force as a result of a fatal explosion earlier this year.
ConAgra workers and their families will join together Friday night to honor their dead, injured and those who will lose their jobs at a vigil at Poplar Springs Christian Church, 6115 Old Stage Road in Raleigh.
ConAgra Foods announced Wednesday evening that it will lay off about 300 employees as a result of a fatal explosion at its Garner plant.
The North Carolina Building Code Council voted Tuesday to alter its standards to require that workers who are purging indoor gas lines vent the gas to a safe place outside the building.
A Slim Jim snack plant in Garner held a dedication ceremony and picnic Saturday in remembrance of a deadly blast.
The three victims in the ConAgra Foods plant explosion died from head and chest injuries from the June 9 explosion, according to autopsy results released Thursday.
Some employees at the ConAgra Foods plant in Garner returned to work Sunday, nearly six weeks after an accidental natural gas leak sparked an explosion that killed three and people injured dozens.
A ConAgra Foods plant in Garner will resume production of Slim Jim beef jerky products by the end of the month – seven weeks after a fatal explosion that ripped the plant apart.
ConAgra Foods officials said Thursday that property and liability insurance will cover the losses the company suffered in an explosion at its plant on Jones Sausage Road in Garner.
Employees of a Garner food plant where an explosion killed three people and injured dozens of coworkers were recognized Wednesday evening at a Carolina Mudcats game.
State regulators said Friday that they are investigating 10 companies in the probe of a natural gas explosion last week at a Garner food plant that killed three people and injured dozens more.
A community blood drive will be held in the North Carolina town where a Slim Jim processing plant exploded last week.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said Thursday that natural gas purged from a line to a new water heater might have caused a fatal explosion last week in a Garner food plant.
David Stradley, a Raleigh lawyer representing two ConAgra Foods plant workers, said Wednesday that new evidence implicates Southern Industrial Constructors Inc. in a fatal explosion in the Garner plant.
One week after an explosion rocked a ConAgra Foods plant, Garner officials held a moment of silence to remember those killed and injured in the blast.
Two ConAgra Foods workers filed suit Monday against a mechanical contractor, blaming the company for a fatal plant explosion last week.
A series of 911 calls after an explosion inside a Garner food plant last week shows how chaotic the situation was.
Hundred of people gathered Monday at Johnston Community College to say goodbye to Louis Junior Watson, 33, of Clayton.
Funerals were scheduled Sunday for Barbara McLean Spears, 43, of Dunn and Rachel Mae Poston-Pulley, 67, of Clayton. The third victim, Louis Junior Watson, 33, of Clayton, will be honored in a service Monday at Johnston Community College auditorium.
The natural gas leak was contained into that room and was ignited when one of the electrical components in that room started, officials said.
Local clergy and officials remembered killed and injured ConAgra Foods employees during a candlelight vigil Friday night at Wake Baptist Grove Church, at 302 E Main St.
As investigators begin trying to determine the cause of an explosion at a Garner food plant, the family of one of three people killed in the blast said Friday that the company should have done more to protect the workers.
The last time Harold Harris was at the ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, he was running for his life.
Local, state and federal agents on Thursday began examining the mangled remains of a Garner food plant to try to determine the cause of a Tuesday explosion that killed three people.
Authorities have recovered the bodies of three people killed in a Tuesday explosion at a Garner food plant.
Family members of ConAgra Foods employee Louis Junior Watson said Wednesday they were told he died while helping a co-worker try to escape.
ConAgra employee Tracy Hinton said she found the strength to crawl out of the Garner plant on Tuesday by thinking of her 6-year-old daughter.
ConAgra officials have set up a fund to help employees and their families who need extra assistance. The company is asking its 25,000 nationwide employees to contribute. ConAgra's corporate office is donating $100,000 to the fund.
Some of the patients suffered burns over 40 to 60 percent of their bodies, Dr. Bruce Cairns said.
The center was being used as an information hub for ConAgra employees to find out information on human resources, counseling and benefits.
Police say they have found the bodies of two people missing after an explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant caved in parts of the roof, sparked fires and caused an ammonia leak.
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