Prairie du Chien Company Says Few Positive For Covid 19

After testing more than 300 employees, officials at Prairie Industries in Prairie du Chien say only “a small number” of workers tested positive for COVID-19. The company took action in late April when learning that two 2^nd shift employees had the coronavirus. Prairie Industries stopped running its 2^nd shift from April 26^th thru May 1^st at their north facility in Prairie du Chien. The following week, the entire north building was shut down – and it remains closed at this time. With assistance from the National Guard and Crawford County Emergency Management, Prairie Industries officials organized a mass testing site to check all of its workers. No specific numbers of confirmed cases were released. The company only reported that “a small number” of tests were positive.