A devastating flood struck an East Tennessee plastics manufacturing plant during Hurricane Helene, resulting in multiple ...

A plastics manufacturer in Unicoi County expressed sympathy after several employees went missing or died amid catastrophic ...

Some workers climbed onto a truck operated by neighboring company PolyPlastics USA, hanging onto plastic pipe as the ...

The families of the workers missing from Impact Plastics continue to search for answers about the search for their loved ones ...

The worker said he only had 15 minutes from when he and his coworkers were told to leave the plant before floodwaters began ...

Company officials said workers were dismissed after water covered the parking lot, service road and the plant lost power.

Impact Plastics employee Zinna Adkins stepped outside her workplace at 10:54 a.m. on Friday and captured water rising in the parking lot on her cellphone. But at that time, she said no supervisor ...

"We were all talking to the supervisors and telling everybody, 'Look, we don't need to be here,'" Adkins recalled.

A plastics factory in Unicoi County is under fire after some employees were trapped and killed there during flooding brought ...

Impact Plastics in Erwin stated on Monday that some employees are missing or dead following Friday's flood. “We are ...

Impact Plastics in Unicoi County come from a tight knit Mexican community. The families say they were told four bodies have ...

Scientists and engineers have long grappled with the paradox of plastics: how to maintain their utility while mitigating their environmental impact. One promising avenue of research has focused on ...