A 16-year-old employee died Friday at a Mississippi chicken processing plant, a county official said. The teen died at Mar-Jac Poultry in Hattiesburg, about 100 miles southeast of Jackson, deputy coroner Lisa Klem at the Forrest County Coroner’s Office told CNN. Mar-Jac Poultry said the teen died from injuries suffered in what it described as an “accident” in an emailed statement to CNN. “On the evening of Friday, July 14 an employee conducting sanitation operations at Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC’s Hattiesburg, Mississippi poultry processing plant died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident,” the company said. “Our employees are our most valuable asset and safety is our number one priority,” complex manager Joe Colee said in the statement.

Source: CNN July 19, 2023 02:14 UTC