Family of 16-year-old worker killed cleaning a machine at Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg files lawsuit.

  • MagicShel@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    That second point isn’t exactly right.

    Federal child labor laws prohibit anyone under the age of 18 from working in meat processing plants

    See, I though I came to correct you that they cannot operate heavy machinery, but he was only cleaning it while it was supposed to be out of operation.

    But if the article has it right, it was illegal for him to have been working in the building at all. That’s a whole other situation than I previously understood it to be.