An investigation has been launched in Tennessee after victims’ families and survivors said that management had prohibited employees from leaving the facility

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday it is looking into allegations against an Erwin plastics factory where several workers died after they were swept away by floodwaters from Hurricane Helene and some were still missing.

An investigation is underway after floodwaters from Helene left two dead and four missing at a plastics factory in rural Tennessee — and surviving workers at the plant say they were told to keep working until it was too late.

Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company behind a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away in Hurricane Helene floodwaters. Two died, and five are still missing.

Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene.

Impact Plastics employee Zinna Adkins stepped outside her workplace at 10:54 a.m. on Friday and captured water rising in the parking lot on her cellphone. But at that time, she said no supervisor informed employees they were free to leave.