During the service, family members of the lost Impact Plastic employees honored their loved ones by lighting a candle and holding their portrait.

The company came under fire after allegations circulated that employees were told they would be penalized for leaving work.

Guillermo Mendoza can still remember the last phone call he received from his mother, Bertha, in the morning hours of Sept. 27. Mendoza said his mother told him she loved him and said, “It looks like it’s getting bad weather.

I dug a road into the railroad bank. … I made everybody hit their gas and don’t stop,” said Ron Kell, manager of the Old Hickory Buildings factory.

A devastating flood struck an East Tennessee plastics manufacturing plant during Hurricane Helene, resulting in multiple employees being missing or deceased.

Six employees died at the Erwin, Tennessee plastics plant as Hurricane Helene caused widespread devastation across the region.