- Agencies, including FBI, ATF, exploring cause of explosion.
- Air recordings show waste and ash across the site.
- The company manufactures military, demolition of explosives.
Several people have died and several others are not mentioned after an explosion in Tennessee at a military explosive company, CNN and other media reported Friday with reference to local officials.
The explosion of accurate energetic systems, approx. 50 miles (80 km) west of Nashville, occurred at. 7:45 Local Time (1245 GMT), Humphrey’s County Sheriff Chris Davis told a press conference.
Davis said there were more fatalities, but it was still too early to know exactly how many people had died and said it was still possible that there were some survivors.
When he was asked to describe the building where the explosion took place, Davis said, “There is nothing to describe. It’s gone.”
Investigators from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on site and worked to determine the cause of the explosion, Davis said.
Air video on CNN showed what seemed to be the footprint of where a building once stood.
In an adjoining parking lot, garbage was and what seemed to be ash scattered among a few parked vehicles.
The efforts to contact the company were not successful.
Exact energetic systems develop, manufacture and store explosives for “military, aerospace and commercial demolition markets”, according to the company’s website.
The 1,300 target big headquarters in Bucksnort, Tennessee, includes eight production buildings and a quality laboratory.
Hickman County Mayor Jim Bates told CNN that the plant did not have a history of security problems, although a small ammunition explosion emerged in 2014.
This incident killed a person and wounded three according to the tennessean newspaper.
