Wisconsin-based company under investigation for allegedly using child labor

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According to the civil complaint, PSSI hired 31 minors between ages 13-17 to clean meat packing plants in Minnesota and Nebraska and several of those minors, including a 13-year-old, suffered chemical burns and other injuries. Via WPR's JoeSchulz3:

and employs 17,000 people who clean 700 food processing plants nationwide.

In a statement, a spokesperson for PSSI denied that the company employed minors and said it has cooperated with the investigation. According to Barab, the decapitation"cut the head off a worker who was trying to clean a machine that was turned on while his head was inside it." In a statement, a company spokesperson said safety is PSSI’s"highest priority" and that the cases in the report were misrepresented. The company says one case was determined to be a non-work-related death, while no OSHA citation was issued for another and two more involved employees who did not follow company protocols.

 

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