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But then Evans, a supervisor who had been with the Slim Jim plant for more than 19 years, went back into the south building, which was minutes from collapsing. Paying little heed to his own safety, Evans, 39, helped trapped and injured workers out of the building.
Officials with the National Chemical Safety Board interviewed Evans about the June 9 explosion at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
A little more than five hours later, Evans was killed in a three-vehicle crash in Garner.
Three people died the morning of the explosion and dozens more were injured. Now, Chemical Safety Board officials consider Evans a genuine hero.
Among the people Evans helped out of the doomed plant was Kimberly Saunders, who had been seriously injured in the blast.
"She had been injured from falling debris," said Don Holmstrom, the lead investigator with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, which is investigating the plant. "She verified that James Evans came back into the building, picked her up and carried her outside. He helped others as well."
Saunders has been treated and released from WakeMed in Raleigh, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday.
Sheila Lane, Evans' common-law wife of five years, said he may have unwittingly saved even more lives because he let his employees take a break three hours early because a machine in the packaging department had stopped working.
"That's why a lot of the girls who worked for him have been ... calling him a hero," Lane said.
Several chemical safety board officials, including Holmstrom, interviewed Evans about the plant explosion Tuesday. After the interview, Evans and the safety team talked about motorcycle riding. Evans was a member of the Heavy Rotation, a local biker's club.
"He rode a motorcycle that day," Holmstrom said Friday. "He talked about how much he enjoyed riding it."
The Highway Patrol said Evans was killed when his Honda motorcycle was struck by a minivan on N.C. 42 near Rock Service Station Road in southern Wake County. The crash occurred at 5:14 p.m., the Highway Patrol reported.
A cement truck owned by S.T. Wooten in Wilson was traveling south on Rock Service Station Road. Evans was traveling north on a 1995 Honda motorcycle. Taylor said a Kia minivan traveling west on N.C. 42 failed to stop for a stop sign and crashed into Evans, throwing him off his motorcycle.
The minivan continued through the intersection, dragging the motorcycle beneath it, before the minivan crashed head-on into the cement truck, the Highway Patrol reported.
Evans was pronounced dead at the scene, the patrol reported.
The Highway Patrol charged the driver of the Kia, Catherine Girouard, 58, of Willow Spring, with misdemeanor death by vehicle, Taylor said.
The funeral for Evans will be held today at the Cape Fear Conference A Headquarters at 25 Beaver Road in Erwin.
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