After, I reached out to police and talked with officers who had visited the facility to discuss the frequency of calls being made to Richmond police and the conversations they'd had with Blue Apron security and managers about how to make that facility safer. I started out by looking at police reports and found that, since the facility opened, the police had been called to the Richmond facility seven times because of assault, three times because of bomb threats, twice because of weapons. So you talked to police officers in the city of Richmond to confirm some of these accounts. There was also an incident in which a worker was groped by another worker and that individual was fired and then he reacted by threatening the person that had fired him - which I thought sounded unusual and was something I wanted to learn more about. The thing that caught my attention initially was references to violence amongst the staff members, visits from the police at this particular facility, bomb threats being called in and the facility being evacuated, people threatening to bring guns to work. A lot of them said it was cold, which is pretty typical for a refrigerated warehouse where food is being processed. Other people said it wasn't so bad - I think a lot of them were happy to have a job. O'Donovan: At least one person said it was the worst job she ever had. How did they describe working conditions there? Many of them worked in the Richmond facility where the meals are packed and then shipped. McEvers: You talked to 14 former employees of Blue Apron. A transcript of their conversation follows, edited for clarity and brevity. O'Donovan spoke with NPR's Kelly McEvers about her investigation. This week BuzzFeed reporter Caroline O'Donovan uncovered some disturbing details about the company - reports of violence and code violations at one of its main packing facilities, in Richmond, Calif.

The company has grown quickly since its founding in 2012: It delivers around 8 million meals per month. The idea behind the company Blue Apron is simple: Each week, it sends customers a box with recipe cards and fresh ingredients to make a handful of meals, each of them in just under 35 minutes. A home-delivered meal kit from Blue Apron.

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