“Minors were used to clean dangerous kill floor equipment such as head splitters, jaw pullers, meat bandsaws, and neck clippers,” the Labor Department said in a news release Wednesday.
CNN has reached out to Fayette Janitorial Services and STF for comment.
To fulfill janitorial service contracts, the janitorial company employed at least 24 children between the ages of 13 and 17 to work overnight shifts cleaning dangerous equipment, the complaint says.
According to the filing, the janitorial company employed 15 children, as young as 13-years-old, in Virginia and at least nine children in Iowa on its overnight sanitation shifts.
On January 10, 2022, Fayette hired one minor “to work the overnight sanitation shift at the Perdue Facility, when he was 13 years old,” said the complaint.
Persons:
“, Perdue, ”, Fayette, Seema Nanda, ” Nanda
Organizations:
CNN, U.S . Labor Department, Labor Department, Labor, Seaboard Triumph Foods, Perdue, “, Perdue Facility, Fair Labor
Locations:
Tennessee, Fayette, Sioux City , Iowa, Accomac , Virginia, Virginia, Iowa