WASHINGTON – Tyson Foods Inc. plead guilty on Tuesday at U.S. District Court in Arkansas and agree to pay a fine following a employee’s death at a plant in Texarkana, Ark., said the U.S. Justice Department.
The Justice Department alleged that Tyson Foods did not take sufficient steps to implement controls or protective equipment to reduce exposure within prescribed limits or provide effective training to employees on hydrogen sulfide gas at the Texarkana facility despite an identical exposure, resulting in hydrogen sulfide poisoning of Tyson’s River Valley Animal Foods (RVAF) Texarkana employee in 2003.