Pfizer Manufacturing Plant Leveled By Tornado; 50,000 Pallets Of Medicine Damaged: Report

A tornado ripped apart a Pfizer manufacturing facility in North Carolina Wednesday afternoon, damaging a massive storage of critical medicines used in hospitals throughout the U.S. The tornado caused significant damage in Nash County — damaging vegetation and homes — in addition to the Pfizer Rocky Mount facility. Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone said, “I’ve got reports of 50,000 pallets of medicine that are strewn across the facility and damaged through the rain and the wind.” Pfizer said in a statement, “We can confirm that the Pfizer Rocky Mount facility...