{"id":"ECO-A-085","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"A","issuer":"Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, U.S. House of Representatives (staff report)","authority":"H. Res. 935 (116th Cong.); congressional oversight (not an order)","instrument":"Staff Report, \u0027Coronavirus Infections and Deaths Among Meatpacking Workers at Top Five Companies Were Nearly Three Times Higher Than Previous Estimates\u0027 (Oct. 27, 2021)","title":"Select Subcommittee staff report on meatpacking companies","dateIssued":"2021-10-27","effective":"n/a","end":"n/a","startDate":"2021-10-27","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["SUPPLY"],"addressees":["n/a"],"clause":"\u0027Across these five companies\u0027 respective workforces, at least 59,000 meatpacking workers were infected with the coronavirus during the first year of the\u0027 pandemic; internal data \u0027show that between March 2020 and February 2021, over 59,000\u0027 workers were infected and \u0027at least 269 died\u0027; Smithfield\u0027s \u0027Sioux Falls, South Dakota plant saw 1,674 infections among its 3,969 employees\u0027; \u0027By the end of May 2020, of 111 meatpacking facilities that publicly disclosed information on\u0027 outbreaks, closures followed.","enforcement":"n/a","functions":["PK","SC"],"notes":"Congressional record of the scale of the plant outbreaks (Tyson, JBS, Smithfield, Cargill, National Beef).","sourceUrl":"https://coronavirus-democrats-oversight.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/coronavirus-democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/2021.10.27%20Meatpacking%20Report.Final_.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":566683,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"ECO-A","url":"/library/ECO-A-085","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/ECO-A-085","citation":"Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, U.S. House of Representatives (staff report), Staff Report, \u0027Coronavirus Infections and Deaths Among Meatpacking Workers at Top Five Companies Were Nearly Three Times Higher Than Previous Estimates\u0027 (Oct. 27, 2021) (Ex. ECO-A-085)","stateName":"","related":[]}