Tennessee firm hired kids to clean head splitters and other dangerous equipment in meat plants, Feds allege
Minors were hired to sanitize equipment including head splitters, jaw pullers, meat bandsaws and neck clippers, the DOL alleges.
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Minors were hired to sanitize equipment including head splitters, jaw pullers, meat bandsaws and neck clippers, the DOL alleges.
The Department of Labor is asking a federal court to issue a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against Fayette Janitorial Service LLC for allegedly illegally employing children, according to a Wednesday news release.
SimpleImages/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Duvan Perez died last summer during his shift working on a Mississippi farm. His 16-year-old body "became entangled" in a
SimpleImages/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Duvan Perez died last summer during his shift working on a Mississippi farm. His 16-year-old body "became entangled" in a poultry processing machine he was cleaning, according to Mar-Jac Poultry, the company that ...
(NEW YORK) -- Duvan Perez died last summer during his shift working on a Mississippi farm. His 16-year-old body "became entangled" in a poultry processing machine he was cleaning, according to Mar-Jac Poultry, the company that hired him -- a gruesome death that federal regulators later called "a preventable, dangerous situation" that no worker should