The fine should be the total labour produce that the average worker would have created over the remaining years of their working life and every single penny of it should go to the family.
$200k is pathetic, and how much of that goes to the family? The state is responsible for the negligence that allowed this workplace to do this. The state doesn't deserve jack shit.
This is not the price of a human life as you define it, but American government agencies consider the price of a human life to be worth $10M, which is way more than the $200k fine.
GONZALEZ: These are pre-coronavirus numbers. But to convince workers to take this risk, companies have to pay them an extra $400 a year - each of them. So if I accept $400 to take a 1 in 25,000 chance of dying at work, I have revealed, essentially, a value that I put on my own life. And if the group of 25,000 people get $400 each, that's $10 million.
Someone is going to accidentally eat a dead child that was doing CHILD LABOR and DIED DURING IT and all we’re doing is fining the company that made this happen? For less than Steam loses when they lose a small court case? Fuck this country
Okay, as someone who works in the meat industry, I can say with relative certainly that all the chicken that could have come into contact with the boy's body would have been thrown out and the area deep cleaned. They aren't just going to say "Oh well, federal regulations let us have 25 ppm of ground teenager, just mix it in with the good stuff and ship it". These companies regularly recall entire batches of meat (worth $1,000s of dollars) if there is so much as a bolt unaccounted for that someone might choke on.
Earlier this week at the place I work, one of the other butchers had a seizure and they threw out all of the stuff he was working on at the time (probably about $200-300) just in case he got some blood on it when he bit his tongue.