Hundreds At Risk At Alpharetta Manufacturing Plant

A Georgia Lottery manufacturing plant in Alpharetta, GA has at least 1 confirmed case of COVID-19.

Employees at Scientific Games, Inc. received the news on Saturday, March 28th that a co-worker has a confirmed case of COVID-19, and three other co-workers were also sent home to quarantine, who were in direct contact with the sick employee.

Employees were told that a section of the plant would close two days for disinfecting. The short disinfecting time span has left many workers worried.

Scientific Games, Inc employs hundreds of employees at their Bluegrass Lakes Parkway, Alpharetta facility. Many of which may have been exposed to the employee with the confirmed case of Coronavirus.

Several SGI workers are concerned that more action isn't being taken. One employee said that they still had to go to work because the sick employee wasn't in their department. Other employees stressed their concern about the sick employee having shared the same break room, bathrooms, and entrances to the building.

Many Scientific Games workers would like to see their plant shut down for a proper quarantine, but instead, received letters to show law enforcement that they are "essential" employees and must return to the plant.

Scientific Games manufactures scratch-off lottery tickets for Georgia, and many other US states, including New York, Florida, Massachusetts, Tennessee, South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois; just to name a few. They also produce lottery tickets for several other countries.

Concerns have also risen about whether or not the virus may have contaminated any of the lottery tickets being produced. The infected employee worked in a department where the tickets are printed. That department is the first line of production, before the tickets move onto other departments, such as packaging, via the production line.