On Wednesday, a tornado struck a Pfizer pharmaceutical facility 60 miles east of Raleigh, North Carolina.
An approaching tornado that made its way to Rocky Mount caused damage to the industrial facility. According to Pfizer, there were no significant injuries, according to The Associated Press.
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Employees at the plant were able to follow protocol and evacuate, and everyone is safe and accounted for, Pfizer tweeted on Wednesday.
A second tweet from Pfizer read, “We are assessing the situation to determine the impact on production.”
In the process of recovering from this weather disaster, our thoughts are with our coworkers, our patients, and the neighborhood.
The Rocky Mount plant, which produces approximately 25% of Pfizer’s sterile injectables used in US hospitals, is one of the biggest sterile injectable facilities in the world, according to the Pfizer website.
A wide variety of goods, including anesthesia, analgesia, medicines, anti-infectives, and neuromuscular blockers, are produced at this site.
According to the statement, these items come in both big and small-volume presentations, including IV bags and semi-rigid bottles as well as small-volume presentations such as ampules, vials, and syringes.
The North Carolina facility produces more than 400 million units yearly. During the storm, pieces of the roof were torn off, and debris was scattered.
The National Weather Service reported that the tornado was an EF3 with peak winds of 150 mph in a tweet on Thursday.
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There were 16 injuries from the tornado, two of which were life-threatening, and it covered an area of more than 16 miles.
The National Weather Service tweeted that no fatalities had been reported. The July tornado in central North Carolina was the first EF3 ever recorded there.
The Raleigh National Weather Service reported that severe weather might return to the region on Thursday, with destructive winds posing the greatest risk.