The factory was permanently closed , with the loss of 215 jobs . Within two years of the accident insurance companies and the North Carolina business lobby together introduced legislation limiting the compensation available to injured workers and relatives of killed workers . Insurance companies had originally agreed to pay $ 16.1 million to the injured and the families of the deceased . Some of the workers became activists as a result , to fight what they see as " bureaucratic injustice " . They had originally hired John Coale , an attorney who had worked on the Bhopal disaster , but he could not legally practice in North Carolina
Bhopal disaster
Bhopal disaster
Hamlet chicken processing plant fire