CHICORA — A part-time cafeteria worker is charged with threatening to blow up Chicora Elementary School earlier this month.

State police Thursday charged Kimberly L. McElravy, 52, of Petrolia with misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats and harassment, and a summary charge of disorderly conduct.

McElravy is accused of making the threat to other employees while in the cafeteria shortly before 8:50 a.m. Feb. 5.

The defendant allegedly said, “I will bring in my oxygen tank and blow up the school,” according to court documents.

Police said she later admitted making the threat. The alleged threat happened in front of employees and no children were present, Karns City School District Superintendent Eric Ritzert said Friday.

“It occurred in a nonschool setting,” he said.

Students were never in any danger, he said, and the school day wasn’t disrupted.

Ritzert said McElravy is still employed in the district and has been on unpaid leave since the incident.

She has worked as a part-time cafeteria employee for the district for more than five years.

A preliminary hearing for McElravy was not immediately set at the office of District Judge Lewis Stoughton.