Court Overturns Denial of Benefits to 29-Year-Old Poultry Worker for Heart Attack

The Arkansas Court of Appeals overturned a denial of benefits to a poultry plant worker who suffered a heart attack at the age of 29 because of an alleged infection from a work-related virus. Case: Johnson v. Peco Foods Inc., No. CV-21-481, 04/27/2022, published. Facts: Jeffrey Johnson began working for Peco Foods Inc. in 2018 when he was 29 years old. Johnson was placed in the "live hang" department at Peco, where his job duties were to grab chickens by their feet and hang them upside down. The chickens would repeatedly peck and scratch at Johnson, and their feces got into the c...