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Fire at EnerSys Richmond, Kentucky motive-power battery plant

S3 · 09/19
2019 · ~01:45 ET · EnerSys · Richmond, KY, USA

Record

CompanyEnerSys
Categoryenergy storage
Typefire
Date09/19
2019
Time of day~01:45 ET
LocationRichmond, KY, USA · EnerSys plant
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale1 manufacturing facility, ~$46.1M insured loss
Confidencehigh
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceEnerSys SEC 8-K filing

What happened

A fire broke out on September 19, 2019 in the battery formation area of EnerSys's Richmond, Kentucky motive-power production facility; no injuries to employees or responders were reported. EnerSys estimated total property/inventory damage and business-interruption costs near $50 million and ultimately collected $46.1 million in insurance claims.

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