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A Mississippi poultry plant is facing more than $200,000 in fines after a teen worker was killed. AdvertisementA Mississippi poultry processing plant is facing more than $200,000 in fines from the US Department of Labor after a 16-year-old contract employee was killed after being pulled into a chicken deboning machine. Related storiesOn July 14, 2023, Pérez was sanitizing a chicken deboning machine when he became caught in a rotating shaft and pulled into the machine, according to the OSHA report. AdvertisementThe teenager was the second worker killed at the Hattiesburg facility in a little over two years. "Only about two years later nothing has changed and the company continues to treat employee safety as an afterthought, putting its workers at risk," he added.
Persons: , Mar, Jac, Duvan Tomas Pérez, Pérez, Kurt Petermeyer, Jac Poultry Organizations: Service, US Department of Labor, Occupational Safety, Health Administration, OSHA, Business, Immigrant Alliance for Justice, Equity, The New York Times, Department, Labor, Labor Department, The Times, Department of Labor Locations: Mississippi, Georgia, Guatemala, Hattiesburg
Tomas Duvan Perez, 16, died after becoming trapped in equipment while working at a Mississippi poultry plant. Perez is the third minor in the last month to die in a US workplace, the Huffington Post reported. Now, six years later, he is dead because of a workplace accident at a poultry plant that should've never hired him. Perez, 16, died on July 14 at the Mar-Jac poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, NBC News reported. A spokesperson for the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi claims an outside hiring agency misled the company by misrepresenting the boy's age, the Huffington Post reported.
Persons: Tomas Duvan Perez, Perez, Duvan Tomas Perez, should've, Jac, Jordan Barab, Barab, They're, Joe Colee, Michael Schuls, Will Hampton Organizations: Huffington, Service, NBC News, Occupational Safety, Health Administration, OSHA, PBS Locations: Mississippi, Wall, Silicon, Guatemala, United States, Hattiesburg , Mississippi, Wisconsin, Missouri, Wisconsin , Ohio, Iowa
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