A Mississippi poultry plant is being sued by a woman whose 16-year-old son died working there
A Mississippi poultry plant is being sued by a woman whose 16-year-old son died working there
The mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a Mississippi poultry factory is suing the companies that hired and employed him.
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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.