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Smithfield Foods pork plant faces OSHA fine from outbreak

by Associated Press
| September 10, 2020 2:06 PM

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal regulators said Thursday they have cited Smithfield Foods for failing to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus at the company’s Sioux Falls plant, an early hot spot for virus infections that hobbled American meatpacking plants.

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