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California Is Still Averaging About 34 New COVID Outbreaks in Workplaces Per Day

California Continues to Record Dozens of Workplace Covid Outbreaks Every Day

As businesses reopen, workplace outbreaks and infections are diminishing, but at an agonizingly slow rate. California reported an average of about 34 new workplace outbreaks and 404 new workplace cases per day, over a five-week period in April and May. Photo: Russ Allison Loar, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Foster Farms was fined $181,500 on May 24, 2021 by the California Division of Occupational Health and Safety (Cal/OSHA) for failing to protect workers from Covid-19 at its Livingston poultry plant and distribution center near Fresno, and for failing to report all infections. At least eight Foster Farms workers died from Covid-19. The Fresno Bee called it “one of the steepest citations” Cal/OSHA has issued during the pandemic.

Foster Farms Failed To Remove Fresno Worker After Positive COVID Test, Son Says

Cal/OSHA proposes nearly $300,000 in fines tied to Foster Farms COVID-19 outbreaks

Cal/OSHA proposes nearly $300,000 in fines tied to Foster Farms COVID-19 outbreaks Rong-Gong Lin II, Leila Miller © (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) A truck enters the Foster Farms processing plant in Livingston, Calif., in this 2013. Cal/OSHA is proposing $292,700 in fines tied to deadly COVID-19 outbreaks at poultry processing plants operated by Foster Farms in California s Central Valley. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) In the wake of deadly COVID-19 outbreaks at poultry processing plants operated by Foster Farms in California s Central Valley, the state s health and safety agency is proposing nearly $300,000 in fines. Foster Farms, one of the West Coast’s largest producers of poultry, faced ongoing outbreaks of COVID-19 during the pandemic. By the end of 2020, 12 Foster Farms workers had died.

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