Wife of Nippon Dynawave Worker Killed in Chemical Implosion Calls for Full Transparency from Company, says Osborn Machler & Neff
Husband died the morning of the couple's first prenatal ultrasound appointment; the widow says he and coworkers had raised safety concerns at the plant.
The wife of a worker killed in Tuesday's catastrophic chemical tank implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging mill in Longview, Washington, called on state officials to demand complete transparency from the company as investigators began their work to determine what caused the disaster that has claimed at least two lives, with the death count expected to rise to at least 11.
According to Mackenzie Ammons, her husband, Jared Ammons, went into work early so he could make time to accompany her to a prenatal appointment. When he didn't arrive, Mackenzie went with her sister, saw the first image of their unborn child, and returned home — not yet knowing her husband was already dead, killed when the mill's 900,000-gallon white liquor tank ruptured. Governor Bob Ferguson has described the implosion as the deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington state history.
Ammons describes being haunted by conversations with her husband about what he described as dangerous conditions at the plant.
