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Tyson Foods: 2 Iowa Pork Plant Employees Dead After Virus Outbreak
Apr 17 2020 // Two employees have died following a coronavirus outbreak that has sickened scores of Tyson Foods workers at a large pork plant in southeastern Iowa, the company said. The deaths of the workers at Tyson plant in Columbus...
Man Dies in Accident at Tyson Meats Plant in Kansas
Mar 26 2020 // A 30-year-old Garden City man died at a Tyson Fresh Meats plant in western Kansas, authorities said. Kendrick Gregory was doing maintenance work on an assembly line early Monday at the plant in Garden City when he was...
Lloyd’s Performance Management Director Hancock to Step Down in 2020
Jan 14 2020 // Lloyd’s announced that Jon Hancock has decided to step down as performance management director in 2020. At the same time, Lloyd’s also announced that Julia Tyson has been named chief human resources officer,...
Alabama Tyson Foods Plant Waste Water Spill Spreads E. Coli in Rivers
Jun 17 2019 // Alabama environmental officials say another waste water spill from a Tyson Foods plant has contaminated rivers with E. coli and killed an untold number of fish. News outlets report up to 800,000 gallons of waste water...
Plastic Contamination Leads to Recall of Tyson’s Breaded Chicken
Jun 11 2018 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson Foods is recalling more than 3,000 pounds of frozen chicken following the discovery of pieces of plastic in the chicken’s breading...
Tyson Ordered to Pay $2M for Causing Missouri Fish Kill
Mar 1 2018 // Tyson Foods Inc.’s poultry subsidiary has been ordered to pay a $2 million fine for discharges from a southwest Missouri plant that caused a fish kill. The U.S. Justice Department announced that Tyson also must pay...
Drug Use Common Among West Texas Oil Field Workers
Aug 1 2017 // Eddy Lozoya never failed a drug test in the three years he hauled water and sand across the West Texas oil patch, even though he used at least $200 a day in cocaine to keep his eyes open on brutally long days behind the...
Arkansas’ Tyson Foods Installs Video, Bird Welfare Checks in Poultry Operations
Jun 22 2017 // Tyson Foods has installed video cameras in key areas of its poultry operations and will test new ways to slaughter birds — not in response to previous “gotcha” moments but under a corporate philosophy that...
Arkansas’ Tyson Foods Recalls Nearly 2.5M Pounds of Chicken Products
Jun 13 2017 // Tyson Foods is recalling nearly 2.5 million pounds of ready-to-eat breaded chicken due to an unlabeled allergen. The company, based in Springdale, Arkansas, says the recall was made after it was notified June 6 by a...
Deadly Bird Flu Found at Tennessee Chicken Farm That Supplies Tyson
Mar 6 2017 // A deadly form of bird flu has been confirmed in a southern Tennessee operation that supplies Tyson Foods Inc. with chickens, marking the first U.S. case at a commercial farm this year and prompting South Korea to ban...
Arkansas-Based Tyson Foods to Pay $1.6M to Settle Hiring Charges
Oct 6 2016 // Tyson Foods Inc., will pay $1.6 million to settle federal allegations of hiring discrimination at six plants in Arkansas, New Mexico and Texas. Tyson and the U.S. Labor Department announced the deal on Oct. 4. The agency...
132K Pounds of Tyson Chicken Nuggets Sold at Costco Recalled
Sep 29 2016 // Tyson Foods Inc. says it’s voluntarily recalling more than 132,000 pounds of chicken nuggets after receiving reports that “hard, white plastic” was found in some nuggets. The Springdale, Arkansas-based...
Tyson Foods Fined $236K for Serious Safety Violations at Texas Plant
Aug 18 2016 // Arkansas-based Tyson Foods Inc. is facing more than $236,000 in penalties after an investigation by federal safety inspectors found the nation’s largest meat and poultry processor endangered workers by exposing them...
Pennsylvania Federal Judge Dismisses Parks Lawsuit Against Tyson Foods
May 12 2016 // This lawsuit over hot dogs failed to cut the mustard. A federal judge threw out a lawsuit accusing Tyson Foods Inc and its Hillshire Brands unit of infringing a trademark belonging to the maker of Parks’ sausages...
$5.8M Award Against Tyson Foods in Iowa Pay Dispute Upheld
Mar 23 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled for more than 3,000 workers at a Tyson Foods Inc. pork-processing plant in Iowa in a pay dispute with the company. The justices voted 6-2 on to reject new limits Tyson asked them to impose...
Supreme Court Rules for Workers in Class Action Against Tyson
Mar 23 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a loss to Tyson Foods Inc. over the company’s challenge to an almost $5.8 million class action judgment in a case won by workers at an Iowa pork-processing facility who...
Former Tyson Benefits Manager Sentenced to 28 Months in Federal Prison
Jan 8 2016 // A former benefits plan manager for Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson Inc. has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for defrauding the company of more than $550,000. Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas,...
Supreme Court Justices Question Tyson Claims Against Damages Formula
Nov 11 2015 // U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism on Tuesday toward Tyson Foods Inc.’s challenge to an almost $5.8 million class action judgment in a case that could buck the court’s recent pro-business trend in...
Supreme Court Term Could Be Big for Business
Oct 5 2015 // Big business is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to curb class action litigation in a series of cases that dominate the nine justices’ business docket in the coming months. The court returns for its new term on Monday...
Supreme Court to Hear Tyson Challenge to Damages in Worker Pay Class Action
Jun 10 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up Tyson Foods Inc.’s challenge to an almost $5.8 million judgment awarded against the company over worker pay at an Iowa meat-processing facility in a case that gives...
