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Poultry giant House of Raeford fined over youth labor
By Franco Ordoñez and Ames Alexander | E-mail | October 17, 2012

A North Carolina poultry producer, one of the nation’s largest, has been caught again illegally putting minors to work in a hazardous job.

Archive: The Cruelest Cuts
PDF: House of Raeford Farms Responds
House of Raeford is convicted
By Franco Ordoñez | Washington Correspondent | August 21, 2012

A federal jury on Monday convicted North Carolina poultry processor House of Raeford Farms of 10 counts of violating the Clean Water Act.

Pain, shame, silence
June 25, 2010

Each day, thousands of workers in the Carolinas clean, bone and trim an armada of turkeys and chickens. They do risky, repetitive jobs to put popular specialty cuts on the nation's tables. Their work returns millions in profits to the companies that employ them.

Rules? What rules?
June 25, 2010

After a conveyer broke her arm and ripped off the tip of a finger, a worker in a poultry plant in Greenville, S.C., was back on the job the next morning. Cornelia Vicente said the plant nurse told her at the hospital she had no choice.

Throwaway workers
June 25, 2010

You may not like the fact illegal immigrants break the law to come to this country for jobs. Yet they do come, and Americans want the low-priced products and services their cheap labor provides. But we should be appalled by what's happening to thousands of immigrant workers who do dangerous, dirty work in pain factories in the Carolinas.

Needed: A watchdog
June 25, 2010

Marvin Johnson is not the only businessman to try and get his way on worker safety. The trouble is, when special interests go too far, government oversight becomes a joke. Workers pay the price in pain.

Spoiled meat
June 25, 2010

What happened to Karina Zorita just isn't decent. Yet it's commonplace in pain factories such as the ones in the Carolinas where thousands of poultry workers clean and debone America's best-selling meat.

Poultry series exposes a new, silent subclass
RICK THAMES | June 25, 2010

Today we ask you to join us for a six-day series on the plight of Carolinas workers who put America's most popular meat on the table.

How the Observer analyzed OSHA data
June 25, 2010

Facts on workplace safety inspections, violations and penalties came from data kept by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

N.C. backs off poultry scrutiny
AMES ALEXANDER | Staff Writer | June 25, 2010

North Carolina bolstered its workplace safety program after a chicken plant fire killed 25 workers in Hamlet in 1991. But the state's focus on keeping poultry workers safe has waned since the mid-1990s, an Observer investigation has found.

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