Once they believed the tornado watch was over, the staff at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory was reportedly sent back to work to meet the high demand for Christmas
Emergency crews search through the flattened Mayfield Consumer Products building on December 11. Photo: Brett Carlsen/Getty Images With news of a tornado-producing storm coming their way on Friday, at least five employees at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory in western Kentucky say co-workers asked to leave their posts making scented candles and shelter at home.
“People had questioned if they could leave or go home,” McKayla Emery, a 21-year-old shift worker, told NBC News from her hospital bed where she was recovering from injuries sustained during the disaster. The requests to leave began shortly after tornado sirens blared outside the factory around 5:30 p.m. “If you leave, you’re more than likely to be fired,” she said, of a manager’s conversation with four co-workers who wanted to get out. “I heard that with my own ears.
“It was indescribable,” Pastor Joel Cauley told the Kentucky News & Observer, of the disaster scene. “It was almost like you were in a twilight zone. You could smell the aroma of candles, and you could hear the cries of people for help. Candle smells and all the sirens is not something I ever expected to experience at the same time.” As of Monday afternoon, eight workers remain missing in addition to the eight who were killed.
While Mayfield Consumer Products denied that their managers issued the ultimatum to stay, the candle factory is not alone as the site of allegations that bosses didn’t adequately protect their workers during the storms that stretched over 200 miles. In Edwardsville, Illinois, a tornado from the same stormfront collapsed an Amazon warehouse, killing at least six people. Amazon has a no-phones policy on its warehouse floors, but employees told Reuters that they receiving emergency alerts on their cellphones from local authorities and sheltered in place. The company told Reuters that managers also got the alerts and directed people to safety.
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