Workers at a Pennsylvania manufacturing plant got to clock out and go home for the first time in almost a month after volunteering for a marathon effort to make material needed for N95 masks, medical gowns and other personal protective medical equipment
More than 40 employees volunteered to spend 28 days at the Braskem America plant in Marcus Hook, near Philadelphia, to make polypropylene -- a raw material needed to make N95 masks, medical gowns and other protective gear, CNN affiliate WPVI reported. They went home on Sunday.The world is scrambling to buy ventilators in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreProtective equipment costs increase over 1,000% amid competition and surge in demand The company gave them an increase in wages and provided beds, kitchens, groceries, internet access and iPads.Workers in Texas and West Virginia also worked the live-in rotations."We're truly honored to be able to give back and support people we will never meet in some way," operations shift supervisor Joe Boyce told WPVI.
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