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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

CHILD LABOR: Shocking photos show kids as young as 13-years-old cleaning slaughterhouse in Nebraska

Shocking photos show kids as young as 13-years-old cleaning slaughterhouse in Nebraska. (Read More Here).

The shocking images — released by the Labor Department during a segment on “60 Minutes” — show children wearing protective glasses, hard hats, gloves and water-wicking jackets while carrying buckets and other tools while working for Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI) at a meat processing plant in Grand Island, Neb.

The kids likely washed bloody floors and razor-sharp machines, like back saws, head splitters and brisket saws, with potent chemicals and hot water, an investigator for the federal agency told “60 Minutes” anchor Scott Pelley on Sunday.

The Labor Department launched its investigation into PSSI last August after a 14-year-old girl at Walnut Middle School in Grand Island came to school with acid burns on her hands and knees.

The department started its investigation into PSSI in August 2022 after a middle school in Grand Island, Nebraska, notified police that a 14-year-old student came to school with acid burns on her hands and knees. The girl told staff that she was working night shifts at a local slaughterhouse plant. Teachers also noticed that other students were falling asleep in class after reportedly working at the plant at night.

“It seemed to be known within the community that minors either are or were working overnight shifts. They told us about children that were falling asleep in class, that they had burns, chemical burns. They were concerned for the safety of the kids. They were concerned that they weren’t able to stay awake and do their job, which is learning in school,” Shannon Rebolledo, a labor department investigator, told 60 Minutes. 

When the labor department visited the plant – which is run by the meat producer JBS and is one of the largest beef production plants in the country – during the night shift, they “noted the difference in the appearance of these workers” that were coming in for the late shift.

“They were little,” Rebolledo said. “They looked young.”

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