Slingshot: Children on the Killing Floor | Labor Notes

…A 13-year-old Guatemalan girl worked the night shift at a JBS plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, where she scoured “blood and beef fat from the slippery kill floor, using high-pressure hoses, scalding water and industrial foams and acids,” according to The Washington Post. A school nurse learned about the girl’s night job after finding “chemical burns, blisters and open wounds on her hands and one knee.”..

Source: Slingshot: Children on the Killing Floor | Labor Notes