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NC Pfizer factory is destroyed as tornado with 150mph winds tears through town leaving carnage in wake
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A tornado swept through the town of Rocky Mount, 60 miles east of Raleigh, NC, on Wednesday

  • A Pfizer factory which stores large quantities of medicines was hit: 50,000 pallets of goods were strewn across the site, damaged by rain and wind

  • Shocking aerial footage showed the roof of the Pfizer site crumpled and twisted like a discarded tissue

Pfizer said the 250 acre site, with 1.4 million square feet of manufacturing space, 'is one of the largest sterile injectable facilities in the world'.

Nearly 25 percent of all sterile injectables used in U.S. hospitals are produced at the site, and 400 million units leave the site annually.

It also produces vials, syringes, IV bags and bottles of anesthesia, analgesia, therapeutics, anti-infectives and neuromuscular blockers.

'We are assessing the situation to determine the impact on production,' the company said.
Posted by: Skidmark 2023-07-20
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