Tennessee firm employed minors to clean meat saws, head splitters at slaughterhouses
Tennessee firm employed minors to clean meat saws, head splitters at slaughterhouses
Fayette Janitorial LLC employed 15 children to clean dangerous equipment at a Perdue Farms plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork plant in Iowa.
This kind of work puts a lot of emotional stress on adults, with slaughterhouses creating conditions for increased rates of drug abuse, domestic violence, violent crime, and suicide.
What will it do to children?
Yeah, traumatic stress and chronic sleep deprivation isn't good for anyone, but it's really not good for people whose brains are still developing
The inhuman cruelty towards workers in the industry is so widespread and unavoidable, above and beyond every other industry. In fact it was the child labor discoveries that started back in the pandemic that made it impossible for me to keep eating meat. The slaughter industry eats your soul.
Its horrifying to even think about what kind of adults some of those kids will become because of having to work there
Last summer, a 16-year-old migrant was killed at a Mississippi slaughterhouse when he was sucked into a machine that he was cleaning.
Setting aside his age, why was he cleaning it while it was operating in the first place? Like, I'd assume that that isn't okay and that seems more concerning than whether the guy is 16 or 18.
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According to the company, he said that he wasn't a minor when applying. I've got no idea what their ability or responsibility is by way of validating that:
In the company's release, provided Thursday to USA TODAY, Mar-Jac said "this individual's age and identity were misrepresented on the paperwork." The name of the staffing company was not identified.
"Although the investigation is still ongoing, it appears now that this worker is less than 18 years of age and should not have been hired," the company said. "Mar-Jac MS would never knowingly put any employee, and certainly not a minor, in harm's way."
...but age aside, they should be able to tell whether anyone is cleaning a machine while it's operating.
And it looks like some other people (not minors) also died shortly before that:
In 2020, a 33-year-old was killed after he and another person were "horse-playing with machinery" in the battery-charging room of the facility, Hattiesburg police said at the time. In June 2021, a 48-year-old died after he was injured in an incident involving heavy machinery.
I assume that the company isn't encouraging horseplay, and I've no idea what drove the machinery accident, but that still seems like it'd be getting into the frequency where I'd want to know why people of any age are getting killed.
There's already locks for cleaning and repairing machinery. You have your own personal lock that cannot be opened by someone else. If there is more than one person working on the machinery, as long as there is one lock still, you cannot start the machine.
It's a simple process that doesn't cost much, but it is staggering the place where they don't have that , or people not putting their lock because it takes time.
I like your method of inquisition.
Yeah. Seriously. I'm done internetting. Just following this person now.
Needs more burning needles under the fingernails, like all good inquisitions have.
Anyone working at Perdue farms wanna explain how they're cool working for a place like this?
Only insane people would willingly choose to be there.
Kids bleed while Jesus leads
Gotta hire children to do it.
They have small hands to get into the tight spaces, also they are young and adaptable so losing an entire arm isnt as catastrophic for them!
heaviest of /s