Agriculture your username December 21, 2020 A lawsuit alleging that Foster Farms fired an employee because he claimed that unsafe working conditions, specifically the presence of peroxide vapors, caused him to have a heart attack was removed from the Oregon Circuit Court to the federal Oregon District Court on Friday by Foster Farms. The defendant said in its Notice of Removal that the district court has original jurisdiction because the dispute includes parties from different states, as the defendant is not an Oregon citizen, and meets the required monetary value in controversy to be heard by the District of Oregon. Reportedly, the plaintiff worked for the defendant from July 2018 until August 2020, when he was fired. The plaintiff said in the initial complaint, filed in early November, that his doctors attributed a heart attack he had in May 2020 in part to exposure to peroxide vapors while working at Foster Farms. The plaintiff was hospitalized for three days and was away from work for more than two months.