date:Aug 03, 2012
A severe thunderstorm caused more than 300 power outages and knocked down trees, according to local news reports. Tyson Foods changed some its shifts for workers as a result of the outages.
Electricity was temporarily disrupted at our Wilkesboro, NC, poultry processing plant due to a severe thunderstorm overnight, said Worth Sparkman, a Tyson Foods spokesman. Because the plant receives power from multiple sources, only evisceration operations were affected during the third shift. Operations res