The NC Pfizer factory is destroyed as a 135 mph tornado rips through town, leaving a bloodbath in its wake

A Pfizer factory in North Carolina was destroyed by a tornado on Wednesday, sending 50,000 pallets of medicine scattered across the site in the rain and the roof crumpled and twisted by 130-mph winds.

The tornado began near Nashville, North Carolina, around 12:35 a.m. and moved northeast through Rocky Mount, 60 miles east of Raleigh, where it destroyed the Pfizer facility.

It ran out of steam in Scotland Neck, 40 miles from where it started.

There were no reports of serious injuries, but houses lost their roofs and power lines were downed in Nash County, North Carolina.

Nash County Sheriff Keith Stone said the warehouse took the most damage, adding, “I have reports of 50,000 pallets of drugs scattered around the facility damaged by the rain and wind.”

Aerial photos give an impression of the extent of the damage and show parked cars in front of the site

No one was injured in the tornado, as workers ran for shelters as winds howled overhead

That’s what a Pfizer employee told me ABC 11 that they all rushed into the safety zone when they heard of the approaching storm.

He said the lights in the facility flickered and then a noise sounded “like a bomb going off.”

The sound only lasted about a minute or 90 seconds.

Pfizer said the 250-acre site, with 1.4 million square feet of manufacturing space, “is one of the largest sterile injectable facilities in the world’.

Nearly 25 percent of all sterile injectables used in U.S. hospitals are produced on site, and 400 million units leave the site each year.

It also produces vials, syringes, infusion bags and bottles of anesthesia, analgesia, therapies, anti-infectives and neuromuscular blockers.

“We are assessing the situation to determine the impact on production,” the company said.

“Our thoughts are with our colleagues, our patients and the community as we recover from this weather incident.”