Pork Processor Wrongly Granted Summary Judgment in Staffing Agency Worker Suit

A pork processing company was prematurely granted summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by an injured staffing agency employee because of lingering questions over the worker’s employee status, the Iowa Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. Emerson Dennis Saul sued Sioux City-based Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC for negligence over injuries he says he sustained in July 2019 after being “slammed” between two pallets that were struck by a forklift operated by a Seaboard Triumph worker. Saul filed a workers compensation claim against his employer, a staffing agency that placed him in t...