Helene floodwaters trapped Tennessee plastics plant employees, and some are among the missing and dead

Floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped workers at an eastern Tennessee plastics factory, with several family members learning Monday that their loved ones didn't survive.

Floodwaters from Hurricane Helene trapped workers at an eastern Tennessee plastics factory, with several family members learning Monday that their loved ones didn't survive.

Some of the workers' relatives got frantic video phone calls as the flood swelled around Impact Plastics in Erwin, where rushing waters swept some workers away from the parking lot next to the Nolichucky River. 

The families and friends had been posting desperate pleas on social media for help in finding their relatives. Some showed up at a news conference carrying photos of the missing and pressed authorities to locate them.

Slowly, their postings were updated to say that their loved ones, several of them Latino, had died. 

According to reports on social media, the workers were trapped outside the building, which was surrounded by fast-moving flood waters that kept them from leaving. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hurricane-tennessee-deaths-plastic-factory-rcna173351

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