These crop ag producers are repeatedly cited for baby labor violations

by John McCracken, Examine Midwest, Examine Midwest
March 26, 2025

by John McCracken, Examine Midwest, Examine Midwest
March 26, 2025

Almost half of all baby labor violations within the agriculture business since 1995 have occurred in grain, fruit and vegetable farming. A evaluation of Division of Labor knowledge reveals these crop manufacturing sectors have constantly topped violations over the previous twenty years.

Different main sectors of the agriculture business with violations prior to now twenty years embody baked items producers, meatpacking corporations and contract corporations that rent non permanent labor for agricultural manufacturing.

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The North American Trade Classification System, a federally used customary for categorizing industries, types all types of grain, fruit, greens, tree, nut, and different harvesting and planting as a single, high-level definition: crop manufacturing. 

This slice of agricultural jobs contains something from corn detasseling to watermelon harvesting, accounting for 49% of all baby labor violations fined by the Occupational Security and Well being Administration for the final twenty years.

Meatpacking corporations have accounted for 13% of all agriculture baby labor violations. Tyson Meals and Mar-Jac Poultry of Georgia have been investigated by the Division of Labor for alleged baby labor violations in recent times, a few of which have been tied to deadly incidents.

The Division of Labor, OSHA’s umbrella company, has elevated issuing violations and fines for breaking federal baby labor legal guidelines in recent times.

The time to shut baby labor violation instances throughout agriculture and meals manufacturing industries varies broadly, with some taking years to resolve.

Examine Midwest compiled greater than twenty years of Division of Labor violations knowledge right into a searchable database. Incidents are sortable and searchable by firm title, state, size of time to shut a case, yr the labor violations closed, and agriculture sectors.

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