Fire damages Pilgrim’s Pride feed plant in Florida

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  A Pilgrim’s Pride chicken feed plant in Gainesville, Florida, suffered “significant damage” from a dust explosion on May 2.

  From WATTAgNet:
  A Pilgrim’s Pride chicken feed plant in Gainesville, Florida, suffered “significant damage” from a dust explosion on May 2. No injuries were reported.
  Firefighters extinguished hot spots after the explosion, and returned to the scene again later to put out a flare-up of smoldering feed.
  The plant crushes corn for chicken feed. A damage estimate is not known at this time.
  
  
  2014 death at Texas plant
  In October 2014, an employee at a Pilgrim's Pride plant in Mount Pleasant, Texas, died after an apparent accident at the poultry plant. The accident is believed to have happened on October 17.
  The worker, whose identity has not yet been released to the public, had apparently been working in the ice room at the Pilgrim’s facility in Mount Pleasant and was hit by a block of ice. The employee was found passed out in the ice room, according to a news report from KSLA TV.
  When the worker was discovered on the floor, fellow employees attempted to revive him by performing CPR at the plant. Those attempts to resuscitate him were not successful. The patient was then taken to Titus Regional Medical Center in Mount Pleasant. Titus County Justice of the Peace Kay McNutt was called to the hospital and pronounced the patient dead around 1:30 p.m.
  
  
  Safety awards
  In 2013, several Pilgrim’s Pride plants received Awards of Honor and Awards of Merit from the Joint Industry Safety and Health Council for outstanding safety performance through the implementation of innovative and effective employee safety and health programs.