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OSHA fined a poultry plant after a worker died. While the case was appealed, another worker was killed.

OSHA fined a poultry plant after a worker died. While the case was appealed, another worker was killed. - Investigate Midwest

The little-known Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission is taking longer to review appeals of OSHA fines and orders. Now the three-person commission is about to lose its only member.

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The meatpacking industry has some of the highest rates of workplace injuries compared to most industries. Not to mention the immense physiological toll it puts on top of it all with workers getting high rates of PTSD, depression, etc.
Fun fact, there are two entire human rights watch reports just about the meatpacking industry
“When We’re Dead and Buried, Our Bones Will Keep Hurting” (2019)
"Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Workers' Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants (2005)
- My lawyer parents set up shop in a city that had a chicken processing plant and made millions off workers' compensation and social security insurance/disability cases.

$27,306 is such an insultingly low fine for a mans death and these fucking bastards appealed it and didn't fix their safety issues. Fuck the owner of this company
They should be shutting these companies down and sending owners to prison for their negligence.

I'd like to say that's not typical.
- The poultry plants have been relocated outside the ^regulatory environment.