Smithfield Foods, subcontractor fined $100,000 for COVID-19 violations in California

Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, and a subcontractor face fines of more than $100,000 from California’s workplace safety regulator for failing to protect employees from COVID-19 and other violations during the pandemic. More than 315 workers out of 1,800 at the plant contracted COVID-19 since March, with at least three people hospitalized, the union said. Smithfield and its subcontractor, CitiStaff Solutions, failed to ensure employees used masks and had physical barriers like plexiglass between them to keep them safe, according to Cal/OSHA...MORE