Boy, 16, Dead In Accident In Chicken Processing Plant

If you've been following the trend in Republican states to allow children to work in adult jobs, here's what happens. A 16-year-old employee died Friday at a Mississippi chicken processing plant, according to a county official. Via CNN:

The teen died at Mar-Jac Poultry in Hattiesburg, about 100 miles southeast of Jackson, deputy coroner Lisa Klem at the Forrest County Coroner’s Office told CNN. An autopsy was completed, but the results have not been released, Klem said.

Mar-Jac Poultry said the teen died from injuries suffered in what it described as an “accident” in an emailed statement to CNN.

“On the evening of Friday, July 14 an employee conducting sanitation operations at Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC’s Hattiesburg, Mississippi poultry processing plant died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident,” the company said. “We deeply regret the loss and send our most sincere condolences to his family and friends.”

One of my longtime blogger friends was an OSHA official, and as he always says, there are no workplace "accidents." There are only unsafe working conditions. I expect that's what we'll see in this case -- eventually.

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