A 16-year-old employee died Friday at a Mississippi chicken processing plant, a county official said. Mar-Jac Poultry said the teen died from injuries suffered in what it described as an “accident” in an emailed statement to CNN.
You’re right, I hadn’t read that yet at the time I posted this.
Retraction: It appears that minors are not allowed to be working in meat processing plants, but that he was hired by an external staffing contractor who did not properly adhere to those restrictions.
Pardon my delicate city sensibilities but I don’t think children should be working in meat processing plants surrounded by death and danger.
Have they not read “The Jungle”? Pretty sure this exact sort of thing was addressed a hundred years ago.
I thought it was actually illegal for him to be working there? Maybe I misread another post.
You’re right, I hadn’t read that yet at the time I posted this.
Retraction: It appears that minors are not allowed to be working in meat processing plants, but that he was hired by an external staffing contractor who did not properly adhere to those restrictions.
All by design…
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