Company owner sentenced to prison in employees’ deaths
Fatal explosion lead to manslaughter convictions
The owner of a New England munitions manufacturing company is heading to prison after being convicted on two counts of manslaughter in the deaths of two of his employees.
Craig Sanborn was sentenced in Coös County Court in New Hampshire to five to ten years in prison in the May, 2010 explosion at his Black Mag LLC plant. The blast killed employees Jesse Kennett and Don Kendall, who were manufacturing a gunpowder substitute at the time of the incident.