Delaware Business Now
Poultry processor Mountaire Farms is coordinating vaccinations for employees.
Recently, Tidal Health, Seaford and Salisbury, reached out to Mountaire regarding vaccinations in Maryland and Delaware.
After weeks of planning, Mountaire arranged for buses from each processing plant to transport workers to Tidal Health in Seaford during their shift.
Next week, Health and Wellness Centers located at Mountaire facilities in Millsboro and Selbyville will vaccinate workers in coordination with Premise Health. Premise Health has operated the company’s Health and Wellness Centers for many years and worked with Mountaire to develop the vaccination plan.
In North Carolina, Premise Health will also receive vaccines next week for Mountaire employees.
Itâs a lawsuit thatâs been years in the making, but the class-action suit against Mountaire Farms may be approaching a $65 million resolution. Rather than face a prolonged jury trial, the poultry processing plant and the citizens who sued them have agreed to a $65 million settlement that could potentially be shared among a huge swath of people.
Incredibly, the proposed settlement could include anyone who has lived or worked full-time in most of Millsboro or Dagsboro, at any time since mid-2000, when the company first acquired the Millsboro poultry processing plant. Although Mountaire does not admit culpability for the alleged groundwater or air contamination there, the company agreed to pay people who may have been affected in a roughly 25-square-mile zone.