An explosion rocked Hickman County on Friday, Oct. 10. Here's what we know so far and about the explosion site Accurate Energetic Systems

Multiple people have died and several are missing after an explosion rocked Accurate Energetic Systems, according to the Hickman County Sheriff’s Office. The company's website says it makes and tests explosives at an eight-building facility that sprawls across wooded hills near Bucksnort.

Newly released drone footage shows nothing but rubble and soot at the former site of an Accurate Energetic Systems facility. No survivors have been recovered after Friday morning’s devastating explosion at a manufacturing plant in Hickman County, according to Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis.

No survivors were found as of Saturday morning following the explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems, according to authorities.

The sheriff of Humphreys County, Tenn., said the 2021 flooding was informing his response to the Accurate Energetic Systems explosion.

According to its website, AES LLC sells explosives and “energetic products” to the military and aerospace industries as well as commercial demolition companies. Its production site in Bucksnort, Tennessee, was cited for five OSHA violations in November 2019, two of them marked as serious, though the case against them was closed in March 2023.

Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said several people were unaccounted for and that some people died in the blast at Accurate Energetic Systems.