The company said 550 of the plant's 2,400 workers tested positive for the coronavirus.
Workers too frightened to put their health on the line risk losing their jobs — and even their unemployment benefits. Tyson previously closed three other Iowa plants, as well as operations in Nebraska, Indiana and Washington state, to implement worker safeguards.
. The company said in a statement Thursday that it would finish pork processing operations “over the next two days” and will conduct “additional deep cleaning and sanitizing of the entire facility ... before resuming operations later next week,” It attributed the problems at Storm Lake in part to “a delay in COVID-19 testing results and ... absences related to quarantine.” Tyson also promised to be more forthcoming with test results. “The health and safety of our team members, their families and communities is our top priority,” the company said.Smithfield Foods recently resumed operations at its largest pork processing plant, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, near Iowa’s border, after it was closed for nearly a month. JBS reopened a pork processing plant across the Iowa border in Minnesota.What you need to know
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