A leading US food sanitation company has employed dozens of children as young as 13 to work in dangerous conditions during long graveyard shifts, federal officials said.
Packers Sanitation Services allegedly used child labor in three meatpacking plants across two states, according to the Labor Department.to issue a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against the company over its alleged crimes at plants in Grand Island, Nebraska, Worthington, Minnesota and Marshall, Minnesota.
Over 30 young employees, all under the age of 18, were tasked with cleaning dangerous powered equipment during overnight shifts, according to the department.according to a federal lawsuitMany of the underage workers were responsible for cleaning heavy-duty tools on a factory kill floor, including beef dehorners, brisket saws and a “190-pound saw used to split cow carcasses in half length-wise,” the suit says.
After finishing their shifts early in the morning, several children went directly to their middle schools, where they routinely fell asleep in class, the filing states.Many of the children worked between 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. or 7 a.m., the document states. The young workers worked five or six days per week, with several clocking in seven days of work per week.
The investigation was launched in August after a “credible” source came forward alleging the company employed minors inUpon learning of the investigation, PSSI managers “attempted to thwart or tamper the collection of evidence in multiple ways,” the filing states. The supervisors allegedly told investigators they weren’t allowed to take photographs and tried to block investigators from interviewing the workers in addition to deleting
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