Friday, March 05, 2010

Major Pork Processing Facility On Fire - Calm Down CNu ... Calm Down

Tyson Suspends Operations at Indiana Plant After Fire (Update1)
Tyson Foods Inc., a processor of pork, chicken and beef, temporarily suspended operations at a pork plant in Logansport, Indiana, following a fire this morning.

“The plant was immediately evacuated, and we’re thankful no one was hurt,” Gary Mickelson, a spokesman for Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson, said in an e-mail.

The plant employs about 1,900 people and has the capacity to handle about 15,000 hogs per day, he said. Tyson has six pork plants, consisting of the Logansport location, four in Iowa and one in Nebraska, Mickelson said.

4 comments:

NEA said...

Oh no... DV, are you responsible for this? LOL

Mahndisa S. Rigmaiden said...

Tyson is known to be somewhat shady with all types of issues from illegally hiring undocumented workers from Nigeria in North Carolina a few years ago to all types of other infractions. I hope too many pigs didn't die a tortuous death, even if they might taste yummy going down;)

CNu said...

"fried chitlins" - hot & fresh!!!

Anonymous said...

"hot & fresh"

Would that be descriptive of how chitlins are served or of what passes through them?