A large explosion ripped through a military explosives facility in Hickman, Tennessee on Friday morning, officials said, and video from the scene showed charred debris scattered around the area.
The Hickman County Sheriff’s Office said that there had been an explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems, a military explosives plant. Emergency services are responding, the office said.
CBS affiliate WTVF-TV in Nashville reported multiple people were unaccounted for after the explosion. The station broadcast images of debris strewn about the site, with damaged vehicles in a parking lot.
The Associated Press reported that the blast rattled homes miles away. Gentry Stover, a nearby resident, told the AP that it woke him up.
“I thought the house had collapsed with me inside of it,” he said in a phone interview. “I live very close to Accurate and I realized about 30 seconds after I woke up that it had to have been that.”
Accurate Energetic Systems specializes in the development, manufacture, handling and storage of products and explosives for military, aerospace and commercial demolition markets, according to their website.
The facility is on the border of Hickman and Humphreys County, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
