Slim Jim Explosion Rocks Garner, North Carolina

Tragedy strikes the ConAgra family

There are no jokes here. There are definitely no references to Randy “Macho Man” Savage and “step into a Slim Jim.” Because that would be wrong. People have lost their lives due to a Slim Jim explosion at a plant in Garner, North Carolina. Families still await the recovery of missing bodies.

Alysia Patterson reports for the Associated Press that recovery teams clad in “bulky hazard suits worked cautiously in the unstable wreckage of a Slim Jim snack factory” to recover two bodies that remained missing at this writing. The Slim Jim explosion that ripped through the Garner ConAgra Foods plant happened the day before.

The plant could continue to collapse

The amount of structural damaged from the Slim Jim explosion is unknown, but crews are playing it safe and attempting to recover victims as quickly as possible. One woman who had worked at the plant for 15 years was recovered after a break in the search due to overnight rain and storms that held up work because of the fear of ceiling collapse. Money loans and extra cash from the corporate coffers will be used to repair the damages.

No cause has been determined for the Slim Jim explosion at this time. It is known that the blast knocked down a wall and collapsed part of the roof of the 500,000-square-foot compound. Sadly, 300 people were working their shifts at the time. Of those present, 38 are said to have been injured, four of them with critical burns. Three firefighters who were attempting to address the flames and save those endangered had to be treated for ammonia fumes inhalation. Ammonia is used to refrigerate the meat before it is processed into Slim Jim snacks. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Slim Jim Explosion Rocks Garner, North Carolina"