Tragic Mar-Jac Poultry accident leaves community in disbelief.
A 16-year-old boy, Duvan Pérez, was killed in an accident at the Mar-Jac Poultry processing plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Questions have been raised about how a minor was working at the plant, as federal law prohibits minors from working in meat and poultry plants due to safety concerns. Pérez was conducting sanitation operations when the accident occurred. Multiple investigations, including by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Wage and Hour Division, have been initiated. This is not the first fatal accident at the plant, which has had three deaths and one amputation in the past three years.