BUCKSNORT, Tenn.—Investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) have identified the “area of origin” where a deadly blast occurred at an Accurate Energetic Systems facility (AES) in Tennessee on Oct. 10.
“They have developed multiple scientific hypotheses regarding what caused this tragedy,” ATF Special Agent in Charge Jamey VanVliet said at a press conference outside of the AES plant on Oct. 24.
Officials from The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives gather for a press conference outside an Accurate Energy Systems facility in Bucksnort, Tenn., on Oct. 24. (Jacki Thrapp / The Epoch Times)
The explosion, which killed 16 people at the rural facility located nearly 60 miles southwest of Nashville, was triggered on the lower floor production level of building 602, where production kettles were used to make “various types of cast boosters” for the commercial mining industry, according to the ATF….