About 600 employees and hundreds of other contractors work at the Proctor & Gamble plant in Pineville. In the May 2018 forklift explosion, the operator of the forklift was killed and six workers sought medical treatment for various injuries. Because the explosion involved a forklift and not one of the primary structures at the plant, this incident was limited to these seven workers. However, chemical exposure is a concern for other workers who were at the plant at the time of the explosion.