2 deaths from a machine starting up during maintenance? Plant needed to be shut down after the first one.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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Who the hell doesn't have lock out procedures for deadly machinery?
Lockout takes almost a whole minute of production time! That's a waste, we need that time to churn out more pink slime for McDonald's
Chicken does not come in pink slime variety. It is an urban legend that was debunked years ago.
Make homemade chicken nuggets. You’ll learn quickly that pink slime is real, before it’s cooked.
Still delicious tho
I thought pink slime is just pulverized, raw chicken breast that is then squeezed into shapes. It's pink because it's raw, obviously once it's cooked it's just white meat.
That's like saying hotdogs are an urban legend.
This is the South. OSHA is communism.
You would be shocked. People at my plant are bitching non-stop because the new owners eant to implement lock out
Supervisors who don't want to get fired for not meeting unreasonable quotas.
the teenager, who immigrated to Mississippi from Guatemala years ago.
The child labor problem is actually an immigration issue. These companies know they can hire migrant children to do dangerous work because they think their parents will stay in the shadows out of fear of deportation. I'm glad one mother is fighting back anyway.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis
The child labor problem is actually an immigration issue.
Louder for the people in the back, please. It seems a lot of people are missing this.
In July, Duvan became the third worker to die in less than three years at the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, plant owned by Mar-Jac, a Georgia-based poultry production company.
In 2020, 33-year-old Joel Velasco Toto died after a co-worker “inserted an air-compression hose into his rectum,” the lawsuit says. In 2021, 48-year-old Bobby Butler died after becoming entangled in a machine he was cleaning.
This doesn't sound like a great place to work.
WTF are these fucking malicious assholes thinking? Compressed shop air can be at hundreds of PSI and a small nozzle that can fit up an ass will turn it almost into a knife.
I hope that sick bastard caught a murder charge.
People associate air under pressure with bicycle tires because they're ignorant.
https://youtu.be/xnyh78wjZ1o?si=YPtArwFgzWAliuSV
video for people who spell tires with a "y":
I've got to find out what happened after work today.
There's no evidence the murderer was charged, although there is some evidence it may have been manslaughter, not murder.
Article about Bobby's death, which also discusses how Joel's death has not gotten any updates since.
If it was possible the entire company should be charged with negligent homicide and dissolved for these kinds of patterns, but they probably will get fined or pay a settlement, so it's just a cost of doing business.
At my work place, with a shop full of dangerous equipment, 20 years ago a person was killed using a lathe and we still hear about it and have extensive safety procedures specifically because of that, and no one else has died or been critically injured since.
Jurgis recollected how, when he had first come to Packingtown, he had stood and watched the hog-killing, and thought how cruel and savage it was, and come away congratulating himself that he was not a hog; now his new acquaintance showed him that a hog was just what he had been-one of the packers' hogs. What they wanted from a hog was all the profits that could be got out of him; and that was what they wanted from the workingman, and also that was what they wanted from the public. What the hog thought of it, and what he suffered, were not considered; and no more was it with labor, and no more with the purchaser of meat. That was true everywhere in the world, but it was especially true in Packingtown; there seemed to be something about the work of slaughtering that tended to ruthlessness and ferocity-it was literally the fact that in the methods of the packers a hundred human lives did not balance a penny of profit.
- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Published over a century ago and tragically still relevant.
In 7th grade a friend read that book for class, he was normally a very cheerful and joking sort of guy. After a few days of reading it he suddenly had the most serious and somber demeanor I had seen for a 7th grader.
My friend used to work there, said he quit because working conditions were shit. He also said there were a bunch of people who couldn't speak any English (he's not racist, he said he assumed they were illegals being exploited)
Gotta love Hattiesburg
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