Overview

• Authorities publicly released the full list of the 16 workers presumed dead, while noting that formal identifications are still ongoing.
• ATF’s National Response Team is directing a multiagency origin-and-cause investigation that remains undetermined and is expected to be lengthy.
• Teams are conducting controlled detonations and moving through the debris methodically to neutralize explosives and recover evidence dispersed over a wide area.
• The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is using on-site rapid DNA to match remains to family samples, and officials urged the public to avoid sharing unverified information.
• The blast destroyed one building at the 1,300-acre Accurate Energetic Systems complex, a major local employer with prior OSHA violations, as churches held vigils and Gov. Bill Lee visited grieving families.