16-Year-Old Sucked Into Machine at Poultry Plant Sparks Investigation
A tragic incident at a Mississippi chicken processing plant has led to a federal child labor investigation and a lawsuit filed by the family of a 16-year-old boy who was killed on the job. The teenager, Duvan Robert Tomas Pérez, was reportedly caught in a rotating shaft and sprockets of a machine while cleaning in the deboning area of the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg on July 14. The lawsuit names Mar-Jac Poultry, contractor Ōnin …