“Nobody did a thing until after there were positive cases,” a former plant worker in North Dakota told NBC News.
COVID-19 outbreaks at meat and poultry facilities have hobbled the nation’s meat supply chain, leading President Donald Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act to keep them open.
But outbreaks at manufacturing facilities that make everything from wind turbine parts to soap have also sickened scores of workers while garnering far less attention.
Some of those employees are sounding the alarm on what they say were poor safety practices that led to widespread infection among their co-workers. Continue reading.