New lawsuit filed by workers in Ky. factory hit by tornado

Published December 8, 2022 2:57 PM

By DYLAN LOVAN
Associated Press

MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — A group of workers at a Kentucky candle factory destroyed by a tornado have filed a second lawsuit. They say they were not allowed to leave work before the tornado slammed into the Mayfield Consumer Products plant nearly a year ago. The suit filed Thursday accuses the company and one of its supervisors of false imprisonment and infliction of emotional distress. A company spokesman says they had not reviewed the new lawsuit. The company has said a supervisor accused of telling employees they couldn’t leave was enforcing a shelter in place policy.

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