The Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the Iowa Premium Beef Plant to pay a fine of $957 after hundreds of its workers were sickened with COVID-19 earlier this year.
The Iowa Premium Beef plant in Tama, Iowa, seen here construction in 2014, had temporarily closed earlier this year after hundreds of its workers tested positive for COVID-19. (Matthew Putney/The Courier via AP, File).
The Iowa Premium Beef Plant, located in Tama, had temporarily shut down for two weeks in April after workers began reporting illnesses.
555 WORKERS AT TYSON PLANT IN IOWA TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS.
On May 21, six weeks later after shuttering and after production at the plant resumed, inspectors with Iowa OSHA observed employees of Iowa Premium Beef Plant working in close proximity with no plastic barriers.
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