Duvan Robert Thomas Perez, 16, was an orderly on the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The plant stated in an announcement that Perez died after getting entangled in a automotive he was cleansing.
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Duvan Robert Thomas Perez, 16, was an orderly on the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The plant stated in an announcement that Perez died after getting entangled in a automotive he was cleansing.
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{The teenager} died whereas working as a minor at a poultry farm in Mississippi final week, the third accident on the facility in lower than three years.
Duvan Robert Thomas Perez, 16, died whereas working on the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, final Friday. Forrest County Deputy Coroner Lisa Clem confirmed the place and when Perez died, however stated she couldn’t launch particular particulars on the household’s request.
In a press launch obtained by NPR, Mar-Jac Poultry stated a plant sanitation employee was fatally injured when he “acquired entangled” in one of many machines he was cleansing. In response to the assertion, the plant instantly notified the Occupational Security and Well being Administration (OSHA) and an investigation was launched with the total cooperation of the corporate.
The assertion didn’t point out Perez’s title.
Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equality (IAJE) spokesman Jess Manriquez instructed NPR that Perez and his household are native Guatemalans who immigrated about six years in the past.
“The employees are in actually deplorable situations,” Manriquez stated. “We’ve heard from folks on the bottom that there’s a lot of kid labor at this poultry farm, so there’s a lot to be investigated. However for now, we simply wish to assist the household via the method.”
Lorena Quiros, chief government of the IAJE, stated in a written assertion that the group is asking OSHA and the Division of Labor to conduct a statewide investigation to finish youngster labor and dangerous working situations.
NPR reached out to OSHA for remark, however these calls went unanswered previous to publication.
Perez, who was in ninth grade, was too younger to legally work on the manufacturing facility, in response to the Labor Division. Federal legislation requires staff to be not less than 18 years of age to work in meat processing vegetation because of the inherent hazards of the occupation.
Mar-Jac admitted in an announcement that the worker was underneath 18 and will by no means have been employed.
“Mar-Jac MS won’t ever knowingly hurt any worker, and positively not a minor,” the assertion stated. “However at this stage of the investigation, it seems that the age and identification of this individual was incorrectly said within the paperwork.”
The corporate stated it’s conducting a radical audit with the staffing corporations which have engaged staff to make sure that an incident like this “by no means occurs once more.”
It was the third loss of life on the Mar-Jac plant in lower than three years. In response to OSHA’s open file, the worker died on account of “taking part in with horses” in December 2020. The Related Press then reported that 33-year-old Joel Velasco Toto had died from “belly and pelvic trauma attributable to compressed air trauma.”
Lower than seven months later, WDAM 7 from Mississippi reported that 28-year-old Bobby Butler had died in a heavy tools accident in Might 2021.
