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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Apr 29, 2020, 09:40 PM Apr 2020

COVID-19 crisis intensifies at Wisconsin food plants: 1 dead, 100 more test positive

The COVID-19 crisis in Wisconsin food processing plants continues to intensify, with more than 100 workers at a Darien facility testing positive for the virus and an employee at a Pleasant Prairie plant dying from the illness.

The Pleasant Prairie employee, according to medical examiner records, died April 15. When the Journal Sentinel posed questions Monday to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration regarding the death, the agency said it would open an investigation and conduct an on-site inspection.

OSHA officials say they are now investigating seven Wisconsin food processing plants over virus-related concerns.The agency had been saying for weeks that it wouldn’t crack down on businesses that didn’t abide by COVID-19 safety guidelines.

Workers and advocates say that at some plants, employees have been asked to work closely together without protection or to report to work even if they showed COVID-19 symptoms.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-crisis-intensifies-at-wisconsin-food-plants-1-dead-100-more-test-positive/ar-BB13kDhf?li=BBnb7Kz

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