Children Worked Dangerous Shifts at Iowa Slaughterhouse, Inquiry Finds

Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa. Fines (Penalties), Labor and Jobs, Meatpacking Plants and Slaughterhouses, Child Labor, Pork, Workplace Hazards and Violations, Fayette Janitorial Service LLC, Labor Department (US), Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC, Iowa Qvest Sanitation was ordered to pay nearly $172,000 after the Labor Department found it had employed 11 children to clean equipment on overnight shifts at a pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa. NYT > Business

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