Overview
- Officials reported that approximately 24,000 to 28,000 pounds of high explosives detonated in the Oct. 10 blast at Accurate Energetic Systems in Bucksnort.
- Investigators identified an area of origin on the first floor of Building 602, a 15,000-square-foot facility used to produce cast boosters for commercial mining.
- Authorities said the on-scene phase is finished and evidence will be analyzed in laboratories, with the cause still undetermined and results expected to take time.
- Fourteen of the 16 victims have been positively identified through Tennessee Bureau of Investigation rapid DNA technology, with efforts continuing to identify the remaining two.
- A wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of victim Jeremy Moore’s child names AAC Investments as responsible for maintaining a safe factory, while the company says it is assisting investigators and has launched a relief fund.