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January 19, 2024

Labor Dept. Fines Poultry Plant After Death of 16-Year-Old Worker
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A Mississippi poultry plant faces over $200,000 in fines for the death
of a teenage worker who was killed in 2023 after being pulled into a
chicken deboning machine. The Department of Labor cited 17 violations
against the Mar-Jac Poultry plant. The death of 16-year-old Duvan Pérez
was the second fatality recorded at the factory in just over two years.
The teen was from Guatemala.


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