Tyson, Perdue Face Federal Probes Over Migrant Children's Overnight Work Cleaning Slaughterhouses

Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms face federal probes over migrant children working overnight to clean slaughterhouses.
A report detailed kids cleaning blood and grease from equipment with acid and pressure hoses.
A 14-year-old was maimed while cleaning a conveyor belt in a Perdue plant.
The Labor Dept. fined a sanitation provider $1.5 million for employing over 100 minors overnight at meat plants.
The USDA is retraining inspectors to report child workers after routinely seeing kids in plants.

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