Faced with a lawsuit and numerous coronavirus infections, the company says it is "proactively" suspending operations at one plant after being sued over working conditions at a different facility
Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork processor, announced Friday it is indefinitely closing an Illinois plant next week after a"small portion" of its 1,700 employees tested positive for COVID-19.The Monmouth plant represents approximately 3 percent of U.S. fresh pork supplies, according to Smithfield, and also produces bacon.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in Missouri federal court claims Smithfield has created a"public nuisance" by providing inadequate protective equipment to workers at the plant in the town of Milan, refusing to give them time to wash their hands and discouraging workers who are ill from taking sick leave. The group in the complaint said that conditions at the Milan plant have worsened since Smithfield shuttered other pork-processing plants in Missouri, Wisconsin and South Dakota.
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