Poultry plant slapped with $213K fine after 16-year-old died in deboning machine, the second fatality at plant in 2 years
Last summer, OSHA fined a U.S. poultry company more than $200,000 after a teenager too young to work at a Mississippi factory died while cleaning dangerous equipment. In July, 16-year-old Duvan Thomas Perez was cleaning out a deboning machine at the Marjak poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, about 120 miles north of the Gulf Coast. […]
Poultry plant slapped by feds after underage worker dies in deboning machine mishap
A Mississippi poultry factory where an underage worker was dragged into machinery and beaten to death over the summer was solely responsible for the horrific incident, federal regulators have ruled after an investigation. A “disregard for safety standards” at Hattiesburg's Mah Jack poultry plant directly led to the death of Duvan Thomas Perez in July, […]