Amira McKee is a Business Reporting Intern at The Current. She investigates worker safety at the Hyundai Metaplant in Savannah, GA as a fellow at the Current GA, a Propublica Local Reporting Network partner, via the Dow Jones News Fund.
Early in the morning a lifelong Savannahnian and a military veteran commute 50 minutes in a 15-year-old SUV from Savannah to the Hyundai Metaplant, the $7.56 billion electric vehicle factory rising from amid the pine forests of rural Bryan County.