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Snow Hill School Bus Collision
Champion Paper Mill Gas Leak
Imperial Chicken Processing Plant Fire
Pope Air Force Base Collision
West Pharmaceuticals Plant Explosion
Apex Explosion
Davie Place Fire
ConAgra Plant Explosion
Imperial Chicken Processing Plant Fire
According to official reports, twenty-five (25) people died and another forty-nine (49) were injured as the result of a fire in the Imperial chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Witnesses, at the scene, described panicked workers as screaming, "Let me out!....Let me out!", as they tried to kick open doors that were reportedly padlocked by the plant management to prevent vandalism and theft. Footprint indentations were evident on the inside of at least one door, that was seen to be locked from the outside.
Front page capture from the Raleigh News and Observer.
Wednesday September 4, 1991.
