Labor Dept Finds Company Illegally Employed Minors to Clean Meat Plant Equipment

Nearly a dozen children worked under strenuous and hazardous conditions at a pork processing plant in Iowa, the US Department of Labor announced following an investigation.

The 11 children hired by a third-party Oklahoma-based sanitation contractor, Qvest, were allegedly employed to use corrosive products to “clean head splitters, jaw pullers, bandsaws and neck clippers” at the Seaboard Triumph Foods facility in Sioux City from at least 2019 to 2023, the department said in a news release.

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