{"id":22874,"date":"2025-10-10T18:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22874"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:04:21","slug":"multiple-dead-several-missing-after-blast-at-us-explosives-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=22874","title":{"rendered":"Multiple dead, several missing after blast at US explosives\u00a0plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Multiple people are dead and several others are unaccounted for after a blast on Friday morning in Tennessee at a military explosives plant, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems about 50 miles (80 km) west of Nashville occurred at 7:45 a.m. local time (1245 GMT), Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do have several people at this time that&#8217;s unaccounted for,&#8221; he said, without providing precise figures. &#8220;We do have some that are deceased.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach local authorities or the company were not immediately successful.<\/p>\n<p>Accurate Energetic Systems develops, manufactures and stores explosives for &#8220;military, aerospace, and commercial demolition markets,&#8221; according to the company&#8217;s website. The 1,300-acre headquarters in Bucksnort, Tennessee, includes eight production buildings and a quality lab.<\/p>\n<p>Hickman County Mayor Jim Bates told CNN the plant did not have a history of safety problems, although there was a small ammunition explosion there in 2014. That incident killed one person and injured three, according to the Tennessean newspaper.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple people are dead and several others are unaccounted for after a blast on Friday morning in Tennessee at a military explosives plant, according to law enforcement. The explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems about 50 miles (80 km) west of Nashville occurred at 7:45 a.m. local time (1245 GMT), Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}