Still having trouble finding baby formula? You can thank, among other things, an incident over an alleged stun gun more than two years ago.
According to an account published in last week’s Detroit News, a report about a “possible weapon” in the quality services department at the Sturgis, Michigan, Abbott Laboratories touched off a whistleblower investigation that left the plant shut down, parents without formula for their children and Americans realizing just how fragile our supply chain is.
In May of 2020, the News reported, “the sound of an electric shock sizzled through the office space.”
The worker holding the device insisted it was a bug zapper before using it again, the News reported.
“It’s definitely a stun gun and not a bug zapper,” an Abbott employee said in internal communications reviewed by the News. Another employee who was in the room sent a letter to management warning about a “possible weapon” in the workplace.