Tennessee, Accurate Energetic Systems explosion
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An explosion rocked Hickman County on Friday, Oct. 10. Here's what we know so far and about the explosion site Accurate Energetic Systems
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.
WASHINGTON — A powerful and deadly blast ripped through a military explosives manufacturing plant in rural Tennessee on Friday morning, rattling homes miles away and bringing emergency responders to the scene, authorities and residents said.