Crowd questions Givaudan CEO after Louisville plant explosion [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It was an emotional Clifton Community Council meeting Monday evening. Neighbors packed the United Crescent Hill Ministries Community Center to question Givaudan President Ann Leonard and her team members after the plant explosion Nov. 12.

The explosion took the lives of two workers, injured more and damaged several neighboring properties including homes and businesses. 

In an announcement Monday, officials said the cause of the Givaudan explosion was a failed pressure cooker tank known as cooking vessel No. 6. 

The community looks for answers as they work to make repairs and get back to a “new normal” after the explosion.

Some said they are struggling from health issues following the blast, and many expressed how lucky the community was there weren’t more lives lost.

“That big boom, that big blast, my glands are swollen behind my ears,” said …