Food Processing Beef Packing Plant

In fort morgan colorado leprino foods shut down a cheese processing plant yesterday after a high number of employees tested positive for the virus.

Food processing beef packing plant. Jbs packerland a beef plant is the site of 189 cases of covid 19 and brown county where the plant is located had 776 cases as of yesterday afternoon. Smithfield on easter sunday announced the former john. So benjamin 64 soldiered on a second shift worker earning. President donald trump signed an executive order tuesday compelling the nation s meat packing plants many of which have closed because of covid 19 outbreaks among workers to stay open as part of.

Covid 19 has forced the closures of the smithfield foods pork processing plant in sioux falls sd and the jbs usa beef plant in greeley co. At least 20 workers in meat and food processing have died and 5 000 meatpacking workers have either tested positive for the virus or were forced to self quarantine according to ufcw. On thursday the sioux city journal reported that 669 workers at tyson s beef plant in dakota city nebraska the company s biggest meat processing plant were known to have tested positive. The worthington jbs is among the 153 meat processing plants that usa today and the midwest center for investigative reporting identified as operating in counties with a high rate of coronavirus.

A jbs beef plant in greely colorado was closed for 9 days earlier this month after hundreds of workers also contracted the virus.