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The Hamlet Chicken Processing Plant Fire
🕑 Added 2022-04-26 10:15:59 +0000 UTCIf you want to learn more about this disaster, I'd recommend the excellent book The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives by Bryant Simon.
Not only does it tell the story of the fire in great detail, but it also provides a lot of really interesting context. It talks about why the plant was based in Hamlet, and where the chicken it processed was sold.
While this kind of background might not seem all that relevant to a disaster, it very often is. In this case, for example, the rise of cheap chicken products in places like McDonald's, Shoney's and other fast food outlets was what eroded profit margins for factory owners and motivated them to start cutting costs wherever they could.
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Fascinating Horror
No problem at all - it's amazing how often the context can really change a story, so I always try to include anything that's relevant.
marina holiday
I really appreciate the context you provide for these stories - to me that depth is part of what makes your channel exceptional in a genre that can easily come off as pointlessly morbid. Great work again!
Fascinating Horror
That's on my list. Dust is incredibly dangerous - something I'm not sure I fully appreciated before reading about accidents like these.
Jennifer Durham
Interesting. We had an incident at Imperial Sugar near Savannah, GA. Dust ignited and exploded. https://www.ajc.com/news/criminal-charges-for-imperial-sugar-deadly-blast/kNmGQSovOqp39A7NiEItyN/?outputType=amp
