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A pig awaits its fate at a slaughterhouse

Labor Department accuses another company of illegally employing minors in dangerous conditions

The children worked overnight sanitation shifts and were required to “clean dangerous kill floor equipment such as head splitters, jaw pullers, meat bandsaws, and neck clippers.” One child at a Virginia plant suffered severe injuries after a machine tore into the child’s arm, requiring multiple surgeries, six months of physical therapy and more than a month of missed school days.