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5 Jun 2024

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By Allen Siegler, Mountain State Spotlight (USA)

In one of the most dangerous workplaces in West Virginia, a poultry giant has profited from immigrant labor for decades

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…Marco had seen plenty of similar injuries take place inside Pilgrim’s Moorefield factory, built along a fork of the Potomac River’s South Branch. He knew what could happen inside the plant.

Over the past 30 years, he and thousands of others who’ve left their homelands have come to Moorefield to work at West Virginia’s only industrial poultry plant. Often fleeing poverty or violence, many have immigrated from other countries, and others have come from U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico.

Seeking safety and a better life, they’ve often faced unsafe working conditions.

Throughout the last decade, Pilgrim’s Moorefield plant has been one of the most dangerous non-coal industrial workplaces in West Virginia…

And in a state in which 91% of residents are white, a disproportionate amount of the danger is shouldered by the plant’s large immigrant workforce, a Mountain State Spotlight investigation found…

This time, Hector said he and others who lacked this legal authorization were pushed toward two independent companies that contracted with the plant: Quality, Service, Integrity and Packers Sanitation Services Incorporated…

In emailed statements, spokespeople for PSSI and QSI said they are committed to only hiring people who are authorized to work in the U.S. ..

... The plant turned to Quintanilla Poultry, a South Carolina-based company that hired dozens of Hardy County undocumented workers to keep the production process running...

... the owner of Quintanilla Poultry, said in March that he was in the process of shutting down his company and declined to answer further questions...