Smithfield Foods Inc. will have to submit documents related to safety at its Missouri pork processing plant to federal safety regulators Tuesday, while the company faces a lawsuit for allegedly failing to protect workers from the novel coronavirus.
At least eight workers at the Milan, Mo., facility have had to stay home after showing Covid-19 symptoms.
The lawsuit, filed last week in a federal court in Missouri, came after reports that hundreds of employees at Smithfield’s plant in South Dakota contracted Covid-19. The company was forced to close that plant after it became the country’s leading hot spot. Also, ...
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