MCEWEN, Tenn. (WSMV) - When a blast echoed through the quiet valley where Jessica O’Daniel lives, she knew immediately what it was.

“It felt like the whole house was gonna fall apart,” she said. “It was a really big boom, and it seemed to just echo forever.”

O’Daniel’s house sits just a few miles down the road from Accurate Energetic Systems, a company that has been part of her family story for years.

“It was just devastating to see that just a couple of miles down the road,” she said. “My dad works there and it was just, it was hard, really hard, to see. And knowing all the people that were probably there this morning.”

O’Daniel worked at the explosives plant for a few months in 2011 between graduating college and starting her career as a teacher. Her mom also worked at the plant in y

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