Yet another meatpacking and food processing business has been caught using children in dangerous labor roles. This time, the company involved had to pay a six-figure fine and was briefly prohibited from shipping beef jerky
Continue Reading Tennessee meat processor allows children to work on dangerous equipment
Child labor violations of employing minors have cost a Minnesota meat plant $30,000 in fines imposed by the U.S. Department of Labor. It is the latest in fines for the meat industry paid for its
Continue Reading Labor Department nabs another child labor violator
Finding 10-year-old kids working in a kitchen late at night near dangerous cooking equipment is a cause for child labor concern and action by the U.S. Department of Labor. It is also a food safety
Continue Reading McDonald’s pays $212,500 in fines for three franchises with child labor violations
Shortly after I began working in a daily newspaper newsroom, someone mentioned that a story “had legs.” I did not have a clue as to what he was talking about. Finally, after hearing the phrase
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: This story has legs
The JBS Beef Plant in Grand Island, NE, the end-user in an apparent child labor scheme, is not being touched by the civil enforcement action. The labor contractor JBS was using, however, is named by
Continue Reading Nebraska’s child labor case is settled without involving JBS beef plantThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Tyson Foods $263,498 for 15 “serious” and two “repeated” workplace safety violations at the company’s chicken processing facility in Center, TX. 
According to
Continue Reading Tyson Foods fined $263K for OSHA violations at Texas chicken plant
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited an Ohio poultry processing facility operated by Case Farms Processing Inc. for two willful, 20 repeat, 30 serious, and three other-than-serious safety
Continue Reading Ohio Poultry Processor Faces $861,500 in Fines From OSHA
Following an inspection of a Delaware poultry plant, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found nine worker-related safety violations and proposed a penalty of $38,000. According to OSHA, the
Continue Reading OSHA Proposes $38K Fine for Chicken Processor Over Worker Injuries
