CAMILIA, GA — Tyson Foods says it has restarted operations at the Camilla meat plant after the fire that killed one person and left several others injured at the end of last year.
A company spokesperson says the facility has resumed full operations.
The fire hit the poultry processing facility on US-19 in Camilla overnight. The fire chief in Camilla says the fire was put out around 2:50 a.m. in the morning.
The victim, 61-year-old Bajarma Batozhapov of Las Vegas, didn’t work at the plant, nor did her husband, the Mitchell County Coroner’s Office said. Batozhapov’s husband is a truck driver and she was accompanying him at the time of the blast, which burned part of the truck she was in, the coroner’s office said.
Batozhapov’s husband was in the building at the time of the explosion but wasn’t hurt, according to the coroner’s office.
Several others were injured in the incident in Camilla, about 60 miles north of Tallahassee, officials said.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents 1,600 workers at the plant, says the fire was caused by a boiler explosion.