(NEWSER) – "We need a public inquiry and we need a criminal investigation and we need them now." The words were uttered by the head of the Calgary and District Labour Council after the death of Hiep Bui.

The 67-year-old Canadian woman lost her life to COVID-19—after contracting the virus at her workplace of 23 years: the Cargill meat-packing plant in Alberta. In a lengthy piece for the CBC, Joel Dryden and Sarah Rieger take readers to the High River plant, "the site of the largest COVID-19 outbreak linked to a single facility in North America."

That outbreak is made up of 949 employees who tested positive; 1,560 cases have been tied to the plant. Bui is the second recorded death. Dryden and Rieger call that a "staggering" count considering that as of May 1, the US had 4,913 confirmed COVID-19 cases across all of its meat-packing plants.

Interviews with 14 active employees whose names were withheld surface workplace-related allegations that go beyond the virus-related (such as fingernails that turn black due to bad blood circulation allegedly caused by how hard workers on the fabrication line have to grip their knives).