Supervisors threatened to fire candle factory workers if they left hours before deadly tornado leveled their facility, employees say.
leave the building. But at least five workers said supervisors warned employees that they would be fired if they left their shifts early., as many as 15 workers beseeched managers to let them take shelter at their own homes, only to have their requests rebuffed, the workers said.At least eight people died in the Mayfield Consumer Products factory, which makes scented candles. The facility was leveled, and all that is left is rubble.
Supervisors and team leaders told employees that leaving would probably jeopardize their jobs, the employees said. There was a three- to four-hour window between the first and second emergency alarms when workers should have been allowed to go home, she said. He also denied that managers told employees that leaving their shifts meant risking their jobs. Ferguson said managers and team leaders undergo a series of emergency drills that follow guidelines of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.A 24-hour hotline is available as of Monday for employees to call about hazard pay, grief counseling and other assistance, he said.
The first tornado warning passed without any damage, but several hours later, another warning was issued. Once the second tornado siren sounded sometime after 9 p.m. Friday, Conder and a group of others approached three managers asking to go home.
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