The widow of a Safeway Distribution Center employee who died of COVID-19 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
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50+ Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Linked to Safeway Distribution Center
The Safeway Distribution Center in Tracy, California, is a massive warehouse that employs around 1,700 people. It was hit by an outbreak of COVID-19 in mid-March that infected at least 51 workers.
Safeway Hit With COVID-19 Death Lawsuit in California
In May 2020, the widow of a man who died of COVID-19 complications filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Safeway.
What Happened?
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Pedro Zuniga, a healthy 52 year-old father of 5 children who died of COVID-19. He was a longtime employee of the Safeway Distribution Center in Tracy, California, where he worked in the produce department for 22 years.
According to his son, Zuniga began showing symptoms of COVID-19 on April 1. Soon afterward, he was hospitalized in the ICU and developed pneumonia. Tragically, he died on April 13 of cardiac arrest and respiratory failure caused by COVID-19.
Safeway Finally Starts Screening Employees
After Zuniga died, Safeway finally began screening all employees for fever and other symptoms before entering the Tracy facility. The lawsuit calls these actions “woefully delayed” and “too little, too late.”
COVID-19 Lawsuit Accuses Safeway of “Hazardous Conditions”
The lawsuit alleges that Zuniga was forced to work in “dangerous and hazardous conditions” at the Safeway warehouse.
Despite co-workers who were showing symptoms of COVID-19, the lawsuit claims that employees of the distribution center were forced to work in close contact with each other, without any personal protective equipment.
The Safeway COVID-19 lawsuit (PDF) was filed on May 13, 2020 in the Superior Court of the State of California (Alameda County) — In RE: Norma Zuniga v. Safeway Inc., Albertsons Companies Inc., et al. — Case No. HG20062742.
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