Federal investigators are moving against a Grant County industrial cleaning company that’s accused of illegally employing children as young as 13 on dangerous overnight shifts at meat packing plants.
The Department of Labor requested a temporary injunction Wednesday against Packers Sanitation Services after investigators found at least 31 children employed to clean industrial equipment at meat packing plants in Nebraska and Minnesota. A Labor Department complaint said at least two child workers suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries while working on the floor where cattle are butchered at a plant in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Investigators said they also found child workers at two plants in Minnesota.
