Officials say ‘no survivors found’ at Tennessee manufacturing plant explosion site as ATF deploys elite team | 11 Oct 2025 | Tennessee authorities announced Saturday that no survivors have been recovered from a massive explosion at a rural manufacturing plant a day earlier after more than 300 investigators combed through the blast site. The blast happened at Accurate Energetic Systems near Bucksnort, located about 50 miles west of Nashville, just before 8 a.m. local time Friday. Since then, more than 300 people had conducted a “very delicate, very methodical” search of the scene, Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said at a press conference Saturday. Officials had initially said Friday that there were several deaths, without specifying the number, and that at least 18 people were missing.