Latest Meat Processing Headlines
All the headlines from our Meat Processing Topic Page, ordered by recency.
5 California Poultry Processors Paying $3.8M in Back Wages
Apr 16 2024 // Employees of five California poultry processing companies in La Puente and City of Industry may be owed a share of more than $3.8 million in back wages and damages recovered on their behalf by the U.S. Department of...
Iowa Meat Processing Plant Accused of Illegally Hiring Children
Feb 27 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. authorities have accused another sanitation company of illegally hiring at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities, the latest example of illegal child labor...
OSHA Fines Mississippi Poultry Plant $212,646 in Death of 16-year-old Worker
Jan 17 2024 // The Occupational Health and Safety Administration this week fined a Mississippi poultry processor $212,646 – an amount set by law – after a 16-year-old was pulled to his death inside a deboning machine last...
Omaha Beef Processing Plant Faces $274K in Fines Following Worker’s Amputation
Jan 12 2024 // A federal investigation into how an employee suffered a serious hand injury at an Omaha, Nebraska beef processing plant in June 2023 identified more than a dozen willful and serious violations related to the...
Tyson Foods, Cargill Suspend Kansas Beef Plants Due to Snowstorm
Jan 9 2024 // CHICAGO – Tyson Foods TSN.N and Cargill CARG.UL said on Tuesday it suspended operations at beef processing plants in Kansas due to a massive snowstorm, disrupting U.S. meat production. Cargill, a major producer of...
Safety Board: Chemical Leak That Killed 6 Georgia Poultry Workers Was Preventable
Dec 18 2023 // A chemical leak that killed six workers at a Georgia poultry plant in 2021 resulted from a poorly designed freezer that spilled deadly liquid nitrogen as well as a failure by the plant`s owner to install safety equipment...
Ohio Meat Processing Plant Faces $277,000 in Proposed Penalties for Safety Violations
Dec 11 2023 // A federal investigation into how a 35-year-old worker suffered severe leg burns, degloving of their foot and other injuries after falling into corrosive chemicals in May 2023 has found that an Ohio meat processing...
Poultry Producers Seek to Dismiss Ruling That They Polluted an Oklahoma Watershed
Nov 20 2023 // A group of poultry producers, including the world’s largest, have asked a federal judge to dismiss his ruling that they polluted an Oklahoma watershed. Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, Minnesota-based Cargill Inc. and the...
Poultry Producers Ask Judge to Dismiss Ruling That They Polluted an Oklahoma Watershed
Oct 31 2023 // A group of poultry producers, including the world’s largest, have asked a federal judge to dismiss his ruling that they polluted an Oklahoma watershed. Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, Minnesota-based Cargill Inc. and the...
Minnesota Meat Processor Fined $300K for Employing Children in Hazardous Conditions
Sep 13 2023 // MADELIA, Minn. (AP) – A meat processing company in Minnesota on Friday agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties after an investigation found it employed children as young as 13 to work in hazardous conditions, such as...
Teen`s Death in Poultry Plant Shows Child Labor Remains a Problem, Feds Say
Jul 28 2023 // The death of a 16-year-old in a Mississippi poultry plant earlier this month offered another reminder that children remain vulnerable to exploitation in the workplace in the United States, senior Labor Department officials...
Meat Processor Agrees to Reform Hiring After Two Teens Found at a Minnesota Plant
Jul 10 2023 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) __ A second company involved in meat processing has agreed to reform its hiring practices after investigators recently discovered teenagers working there. The Labor Department said Friday that Monogram...
US Beefs Up Campaign for Accurate Animal Welfare Claims on Meat, Poultry Packaging
Jun 15 2023 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it hopes to weed out false or misleading animal-welfare claims on meat and poultry packaging with new guidance and testing. The claims – such as...
U.S. Cites Another Poultry Producer in Compensation Sharing Conspiracy
May 18 2023 // The Department of Justice proposed an amended complaint and consent decree in the District of Maryland that would resolve claims that chicken producer George’s Inc. and George’s Foods conspired with other...
Firm That Employed Children to Clean Meat Plants Keeps Losing Work
May 3 2023 // OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The slaughterhouse cleaning company that was found to be employing more than 100 children to help sanitize dangerous razor-sharp cutting equipment like bone saws has continued to lose contracts...
Midwest Meat Plant Cleaning Service Fined $1.5M for Hiring Minors
Mar 20 2023 // One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the U.S. Department of Labor said in early...
Minnesota Meat Processing Company Accused of Employing Minors
Mar 17 2023 // A meat processing company in Minnesota employed children as young as 13 to work in hazardous conditions, such as operating meat grinders, while they worked overnight shifts and longer hours than allowed by law, the...
$1 Million Settlement in Class Action over Immigration Raid at Tenn. Meat Plant
Mar 2 2023 // A federal judge has approved a settlement of more than $1 million in a class action lawsuit that challenged a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee meatpacking plant where about 100 people were arrested. The...
Latino Workers at Tennessee Meat Plant Reach $1.2M Settlement in Immigration Raid
Feb 28 2023 // Latino workers at a Tennessee meat processing plant have reached a $1.2 million settlement in a lawsuit over a 2018 immigration raid in which they were “targeted by federal agents” because of their ethnicity,...
Midwest Meat Plant Cleaning Service Fined $1.5M for Hiring Minors
Feb 22 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the U.S. Department of...
