Meatpacking firm fined for hiring children for dangerous work
| The Labor Department has fined Packers Sanitation Services for allegedly illegally employing at least 102 children as young as 13 to use dangerous chemicals to clean “razor-sharp saws,” head splitters and other high-risk equipment at 13 meatpacking facilities in eight states, The Washington Post reported.The plants are operated by some of the country’s most powerful meat-processing companies, including JBS Foods, Tyson and Cargill. Those companies were not charged or fined, the Post noted. –The Hagstrom Report |
