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  2. Hamlet chicken processing plant fire - Wikipedia

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    On January 9, 1992, United States Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin set a deadline of 90 days for North Carolina state officials to improve enforcement of job safety and health regulations, or federal agencies would take over. [126] The North Carolina General Assembly passed 14 new worker safety laws as a result, including whistleblower protections.

  3. Mountaire Farms - Wikipedia

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    The company took over the Townsend/Omtron Hatchery in Siler City, North Carolina in 2013. Mountaire Farms bought Star Milling in Statesville, North Carolina in 2014, which became their Breeder Feed Mill. In 2016, the company bought a former processing plant in Siler City, with plans to renovate and update the plant.

  4. Concentrated animal feeding operation - Wikipedia

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    In a study done in North Carolina that focused on twenty one Latino chicken catchers for a poultry-processing plant, the work place was found to be forcefully high intensity labor with high potential for injury and illness including trauma, respiratory illness, drug use and musculoskeletal injuries.

  5. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the meat industry in the ...

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    The largest pork processing plant in the world is the Smithfield facility in Tar Heel, North Carolina. The plant employs 4,500 workers. [117] On May 1, 2020, local health officials announced that 53 of the workers at the plant has tested positive for coronavirus. [118] By May 7, that number had grown to 76 workers infected. [117]

  6. A wave of major listeria recalls shows food safety will ... - AOL

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    Meat and poultry processing facilities are checked by federal inspectors at least once during every shift that a plant is in operation, according to a Food Safety and Inspection Service spokesperson.

  7. North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and ...

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    North Carolina State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is the fourth largest college in the university [1] and one of the largest colleges of its kind in the nation, with nearly 3,400 students pursuing associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees and 1,300 on-campus and 700 off-campus faculty and staff members.

  8. Janitorial company hired minors to clean slaughterhouses, US ...

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    The US Labor Department requested a temporary injunction against Fayette Janitorial Services for allegedly employing children to work overnight shifts in slaughterhouses.

  9. Meat industry - Wikipedia

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    Cost of state services associated with the above, including meat inspection and health care; Spread of human disease associated with workers in meat and poultry processing facilities [12] The ecological footprint of the meat industry, including the raising of feed and animal waste disposal