Tyson Foods said Wednesday it is suspending operations indefinitely at its Waterloo pork processing plant.The Arkansas company also said it will offer COVID-19 testing to all of its 2,800 employees at the plant while it's closed.The decision to close the plant, Tyson's largest pork processing facility, comes after employees at the company's Waterloo and Dakota City, Nebraska, plants have died from COVID-19.Gov. Kim Reynolds said the state will help with employee testing, which she believes will begin Friday.Tyson said the Waterloo plant had been running at reduced levels of production due to worker absenteeism. A decision to restart the plant depends on the outcome of the testing, among other factors, the company said.The Board of Health in Black Hawk County passed a resolution Tuesday that called for the plant to close. As of Wednesday, the county had a total of 379 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and two deaths. The board's resolution called the plant the "largest single source" of infection in the county....
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
"Tyson says it will close its Waterloo pork processing plant indefinitely due to COVID-19"
From the Des Moines Register, April 22:
