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Hamlet chicken processing plant fire

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The Hamlet chicken processing plant fire was an industrial fire in Hamlet, North Carolina, atthe Imperial Foods processing plant on September 3, 1991, resulting from a failure in a hydraulic

line. 25 workers were killed and 55 injured in the fire, trapped behind locked fire doors. In 11years of operation, the plant had never received a safety inspection.[1] Investigators believe a

safety inspection might have prevented the disaster .[2] 

A federal investigation was launched. Owner Emmett Roe received a 20-year prison sentence, of

which he served only four years. The company received the highest fine in the history of NorthCarolina,[3] which was less than the federal minimum. As a result, the federal government took

over enforcement of much of North Carolina's worker safety laws.[4] Survivors and victims'

families accused the fire service and city of Hamlet of racism, leading to two monuments to the

tragedy being erected. The plant was never reopened.

The fire was North Carolina's worst industrial disaster .

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 Higher fatalities occurred at the 1947Texas City disaster , the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and the 1860 Pemberton Mill collapse.[6] Some mining disasters have been worse: 53 miners died in 1925 in North Carolina in

the Coal Glen mine disaster . 

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