Latest Meat Processing Headlines
All the headlines from our Meat Processing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
4 Tyson Foods Poultry Workers in Georgia Die of Coronavirus
Apr 21 2020 // Four employees of a major poultry producer’s operations in rural southwest Georgia have died after becoming infected with the coronavirus, a company spokesman said Friday. Tyson Foods spokesman Gary Mickelson said...
South Dakota COVID-19 Cases at Meat Plant Top 1,000; One Worker Dies
Apr 17 2020 // The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus in South Dakota has surpassed 1,100 and more than half of those cases have some connection to the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls. Health...
Tyson Foods: 2 Iowa Pork Plant Employees Dead After Virus Outbreak
Apr 17 2020 // Two employees have died following a coronavirus outbreak that has sickened scores of Tyson Foods workers at a large pork plant in southeastern Iowa, the company said. The deaths of the workers at Tyson plant in Columbus...
Iowa Beef Plant Suspends Operations Due to Worker Virus Infections
Apr 15 2020 // A beef processing plant in one of Iowa’s coronavirus hot spots has suspended production after several workers have become infected. National Beef announced that its Iowa Premium plant in Tama will be idled until...
Meat Plant Closures, Absenteeism Rise With Workers’ Fear of Coronavirus, Lack of Safety
Apr 15 2020 // CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba — At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10 cents a day to buy masks to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, according to a meat...
Smithfield’s South Dakota Pork Plant Closed After 100s Test Positive for Virus
Apr 14 2020 // Virginia-based Smithfield Foods announced Sunday that it is closing its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, until further notice after hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus — a step...
Iowa Meat Plant Pushes Back Against Claims of Micronesian Worker Mistreatment
Oct 8 2019 // An Iowa pork processing plant is working to address Micronesia’s concerns about the treatment of some of its citizens who work at the plant. Seaboard Triumph Foods said that it follows all employment laws and it is...
Micronesians Working at Iowa Meat Plant Allege Mistreatment
Oct 4 2019 // The island nation of Micronesia is raising concerns about how some of its citizens working at an Iowa pork processing plant are being treated. Micronesia sent a formal letter to the U.S. State Department asking U.S....
Lawsuit: Workers at Iowa Pork Processor Fired for Work Conditions Complaints
Jun 27 2019 // Three workers have sued an Iowa pork processor they said fired them in retaliation for filing complaints about working conditions and talking with state health officials. Luis Aceves, Jose Moreno and Jose Magana filed...
Texas Meat Packing Plant Faces $615.6K in Penalties for Safety Violations
May 7 2019 // A meat packing plant in San Angelo, Texas, has been cited for exposing workers to highly hazardous chemicals and faces more than $615,000 in penalties. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health...
Troubled Delaware Poultry Plant Reports Wastewater Spill
Feb 15 2019 // State environmental officials say a southern Delaware poultry processing facility with a history of wastewater violations has reported an accidental discharge of up to 1 million gallons of partially treated...
Jury Orders Pork Producer to Pay $473.5M in North Carolina Nuisance Lawsuit
Aug 20 2018 // A federal jury decided Aug. 5 that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog farms for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors,...
Jury Orders Pork Producer to Pay $473.5M in North Carolina Nuisance Lawsuit
Aug 6 2018 // A federal jury decided Friday that the world’s largest pork producer should pay $473.5 million to neighbors of three North Carolina industrial-scale hog farms for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors,...
Texas Meatpacker Recalls Another 9 Tons of Smoked Sausage
Jun 4 2018 // A Texas meatpacker is recalling several tons of smoked sausage over possible contamination by soft plastic, marking the company’s second recall in a month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 31 announced the...
Ammonia Leak at South Carolina Meat Plant Forces Evacuation of Nearby Residents
Mar 27 2018 // Neighbors of a South Carolina processed meat plant are breathing easy again after being ordered to run from their homes ahead of a chemical leak. Multiple media organizations reported that the leak of anhydrous ammonia...
Judge Orders North Carolina-Based Pork Producer to Clean Up Water Pollution
Dec 8 2017 // A major pork producer must live up to an agreement it signed 11 years ago and work on cleaning up water pollution tied to almost a dozen industry-scale hog operations, a federal judge ruled this week. Murphy-Brown LLC must...
Bird Flu Restrictions Ended for Georgia Poultry Producers
Apr 25 2017 // Officials say they have ended restrictions on poultry producers that were enacted after the first confirmation of avian influenza in commercial birds in Georgia. News outlets report state veterinarian Robert M. Cobb Jr....
Minnesota Better Prepared for Bird Flu, Poultry Producers Say
Mar 31 2017 // Minnesota is better prepared for a potential bird flu return after a devastating 2015 epidemic, according to poultry producers and experts. Poultry farmers are waiting as the early spring opens water on lakes and rivers,...
OSHA Fines Alabama Meat Processing Plant $76K After Worker Loses Fingertip
Sep 9 2016 // A meat processing plant in Bakerhill, Ala., has been fined more than $70,000 following an investigation after a worker lost his fingertip. Al.com reports the Keystone Food plant is facing about $76,700 in proposed...
OSHA Fights Georgia Poultry Plant Over Right to Inspect Facility
Sep 2 2016 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is pushing back against a local judge in Georgia’s recommendation to deny the agency a warrant to inspect the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Gainesville for worker-safety...
