Inactive government supervision and supervision, inadequate implementation of factory management and implementation environment, and weak knowledge of workers in epidemic prevention …
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Hazelton has a population of about 30,000 people and more than 1,000 confirmed cases. It is one of the cities with the highest infection rate per capita. The infection rate in this city is twice that of New York City and 12 times the overall infection rate in Pennsylvania.
After the worker was sick and reported physical discomfort, the factory nurse found that the body temperature of the worker did not exceed 38 degrees Celsius through temperature measurement, and told the worker to continue to work.
The federal and state governments are not active in the supervision and inspection of meat processing factories, so that the local authorities have organized their own action teams to inspect the factories.
Before, we would think that the machine didn’t need to rest at all. Today, we believe that machines will not be infected with new coronaviruses. Perhaps, the era of robots is coming.
Editor’s note: The epidemic of new coronavirus continues to spread in the United States. During the spread of the epidemic, many meat processing plants have become “severely hit areas.” Why would a meat processing plant become a breeding ground for new coronavirus? This article from Bloomberg, the original title is Cold, Crowded, Deadly: How U.S. Meat Plants Became a Virus Breeding Ground, the author Peter Waldman, Lydia Mulvany and Polly Mosendz introduced the story behind this.
JBS USA, the second largest beef and pork processing producer in the USThe factory in Cactus, Texas has more than 3,000 workers. According to three workers at the factory, a worker suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus took sick leave to go home, but it was not until nine days later that the worker’s virus test was positive before the factory informed employees of the truth. But at that time, many workers had fallen ill. However, for more than a week, the factory manager has been denying the authenticity of the serious outbreak in the factory, and also warned sick workers not to discuss their diagnosis in private.
Juan Manuel Jaime. Image source: Jamie’s family
According to Anthony Germain, his wife developed fever on April 5 (he is not a JBS employee, but due to his wife and other family members Working in the factory, in order to protect them, he asked not to disclose their names). After a few days, Gilman’s wife still had symptoms of vomiting, but no fever. Therefore, a nurse at JBS told her that she could go back to work in the factory.
On April 10, Gilman ’s wife tested positive for the new coronavirus. According to Gilman, a plant manager later called and told her not to share her confirmed diagnosis with other workers. At the time, Gilman heard the content of the phone and was immediately angry at the factory’s blatant violation of the epidemic management measures.
“I will never help them to hide from the sky,” Gilman said. “They don’t want to cause panic and fear in the factory, but this is already the truth, and no other The workers are in the dark. “
JBS spokesman Nikki Richardson (Nikki Richardson) said that the company did not require any employees to remain silent for the diagnosis of the new coronavirus, the company will also be confirmed by employees Notify them in time. She also mentioned that employees with related symptoms will go home to rest, and the company has not asked any employees to work with illness.
According to the Texas Department of HealthThere are 243 confirmed cases related to JBS ’s factory in Cocketts, which makes the suburbs of Moore County a severely affected area in the state.
On April 12, Easter Day, 28-year-old Juan Manuel Jaime died of new coronavirus and related complications. He was one of two people who died of the new coronavirus in his factory. Jamie ’s aunt, Sandra Guzman, said that Jamie had been working in the JBS factory for nearly two weeks, and his supervisor did not allow him to see a doctor and asked him to work.
After finishing work on Good Friday (April 10th this year), Jamie ’s parents found him lying in bed the next night, unconscious. Jamie died four hours after moving to the intensive care unit in Amarillo, a city in northwest Texas.
After Jamie ’s death, his parents were diagnosed with the new coronavirus. His father was also hospitalized for a week. Richardson said that before Jamie died, JBS did not know that Jamie had been infected with the new crown virus, and the factory also took a series of measures, including increasing fever screening equipment, increasing social distance, and providing employees with more Protective equipment to effectively prevent the epidemic.
Hazelton ’s local population is about 30,000, and the number of new coronavirus confirmed cases has exceeded 1,000, making it one of the cities with the highest infection rate per capita. The infection rate in this city is twice that of New York City and 12 times the overall infection rate in Pennsylvania.
Cargill ’s sole responsibility is not for the spread of the New Crown epidemic in Hazelton. In addition to the outbreak of the Cargill plant, there are also warehouses, several processing plants including the Mission Foods corn processing plant, and Amazon’s order fulfillment center.
Hazelton is located in an anthracite producing area 130 miles (about 210 kilometers) west of New York. In 2000, the local government of Hazelton adopted a preferential tax relief policy, which attracted Cargill to settle here.
Cargill is headquartered in Minneapolis, the largest city in Minnesota, and is the world ’s largest agricultural trader and the largest private investor in the United States.