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Neighbors want company to pay for damages from Louisville plant explosion

Neighbors on Payne Street are keeping the receipts as evidence for damage claims.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Payne Street residents continued collecting the pieces of destruction on Wednesday after an explosion at the Givaudan plant Tuesday afternoon.

Broken pieces of window glass are collected together in bins. Those windows were boarded up with plywood.

Randy Crumley has to look at cleaning up the mess in a different way, by moving his things out of his home. He said it's a total loss, and the property management told him he needs to leave. 

"A rod came through the window and all that stuff blew out," he said, describing being inside his home when the explosion happened. "The bulk of my stuff was sitting right there, computer, laptop. That's my work station. If I'd been sitting there, we'd be having a very different conversation."

He's staying with a friend. He did receive his deposit and this month's rent back, but he still is without a home.

Randy Crumley lost his home and everything inside due to the blast.

Andy White was in the home he shares with Katie Deignan when the blast happened. 

"It just sounded like a bomb went off," said White.

He was sitting next to a window that shattered. Luckily, they had weatherized the window and put plastic over it.

"It held the glass from shattering all over the couch, and all over the dogs, and [Andy]," said Deignan.

The blast left large cracks in their ceiling, and a busted door frame. There's concern of damages they can't immediately see in their over 100-year-old home.

They all hope the company pays for the damages.

"To potentially decrease our property value and make our insurance go up over something that you guys messed up isn't great," said Deignan. "Isn't cool. I don't like that."

They better cough up something," said Crumley.

Metro Council member Andrew Owen agrees.

"From my perspective, that's all liability that lies with the company," said Owen.

Deignan, White, and Crumley do not want the company to return to the building.

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