meatpacking industry

A U.S. House report says at least 59,000 meatpacking workers became ill with COVID-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry last year

More than 200 workers at eight LA-area meat and food processing plants have tested positive for COVID-19 and now some of them have inadvertently infected family members, according to an NBC4 I-Team investigation.  “I feel terrible. I passed it onto my wife because I didn’t know that I had the virus,” says Jose Guzman, a 10-year employee of the...

Nine food packing facilities in the city of Vernon have reported coronavirus outbreaks among their employees, and the largest outbreak is at a Farmer John meat packing plant. The plant is operated by Smithfield Foods, known for manufacturing the famous Dodger Dog.  At that facility, 153 employees, out of a total 1800, tested positive for COVID-19 from March to...

All of the facilities are within a one mile radius of each other. Darsha Philips reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. Saturday May 24, 2020.

Tyson Foods is suspending operations indefinitely at a large Iowa pork processing plant that was blamed for fueling a coronavirus outbreak in the community.