Tyson Foods will pay $32 million to settle the question of whether workers should be paid for the time it takes to put on and take off protective clothes and safety gear at the beginning and end of their shifts.

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Tags: donning and doffing, PPE, safety gear, Tyson Foods, United Food and Commercial Workers

Tyson Foods will pay a $500,000 fine for willfully violating safety regulations that led a worker to be overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes and later die.

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Tyson Foods has agreed to pay the maximum penalty for a willful violation of an OSHA standard resulting in the death of an employee.

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Tags: employee death, OSHA fine, Tyson Foods, willful violation