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House Democrats investigate COVID-19 at U.S. meatpacking plants
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Activists call attention to slaughterhouse workers who have contracted COVID-19 while on the job in Vernon, Calif., during a rally on December 11, 2020. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 1 (UPI) U.S. House investigators are taking a look at how federal health and safety inspectors dealt with the COVID-19 crisis at meatpacking plants across the country and whether companies properly moved to protect worker health.
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, sent letters Monday to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, and the top officials for Tyson Foods,Smithfield Foods, and JBS USA, three large meat companies which have had a combined total of at least 41 major outbreaks in meatpacking facilities in 20 states, including multiple outbreaks in the same plants, the committee said.
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