Death on a Dairy Farm
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 2월 15일
위치: 미국
기업 페이지
D&K Dairy - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 3
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 3 - 니카라과 , 농업/식품/음료/담배/어업: 일반 , Gender not reported )토픽들
사망 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 산업 안전 및 보건 , 비사법적 구제절차에 대한 접근성결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalists에 의해 요청됨
시행된 조치: In August 2020, the boy’s father filed a wrongful death lawsuit against D&K Dairy, its insurer, Rural Mutual Insurance, and the skid steer driver. The boy’s father believes the farm should be held responsible. An engineer hired by the father’s attorneys to inspect the skid steer said the machine’s horn, back-up alarm and rear lights were not working. The farm’s owners and Rural Mutual Insurance declined to comment about the accident to the journalists. A later article released in June 2023 states the boy’s father settled the lawsuit against the farm. In November 2023, Wisconsin officials approved reforms that respond to the flawed investigation that led to the boy’s father being wrongly accused. The reforms include USD 8 million funding for farmworker housing, and measures to improve access to government services for people who do not speak English.
출처: News outlet
…Ingolia’s interview with Rodríguez, as halting and incoherent as it was, became the foundation of the official account of the night of July 26, 2019 — Rodríguez accidentally killed his son.
That account would be repeated by other agencies, publicized by local media outlets and remembered by farmers in the area and residents who speak only English.
It is an account that torments Rodríguez because, he said, it isn’t true…
What happened to Jefferson and his father is a story of an accumulation of failures: a broken immigration system that makes it difficult for people to come here even as entire industries depend on their labor, small farms that largely go unexamined by safety inspectors, and a law enforcement system that’s ill equipped to serve people who don’t speak English…
It is an open secret in the dairy industry that many workers lack authorization to work in the U.S. They get jobs using fake papers that employers, knowingly or not, accept. “The less I know the better,” one farmer in Dane County told ProPublica…
the workforce at Wisconsin dairies has shifted; where it was once mainly immigrants from Mexico, it now includes asylum-seekers and other immigrants from Central America. Around Dane County, many are Nicaraguan…